Last August, a downstate judge had ordered the state to accept the transfer “of all offenders as required by the Illinois Unified Code of Corrections.” But the Illinois Appellate Court reversed that order. In the past few days, 761 people were awaiting transfer from the County Jail to state prisons, about 15% of the jail population, Dart said.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.