By Andy Kravetz / Gatehouse Media Illinois
Posted May 9, 2018 at 12:45 PM
PEORIA, Ill. — A Peoria murder trial was delayed this week after the Illinois Department of Corrections said it was short of gas money.
This week, an official at Western Illinois Correctional Center in Mount Sterling sent an email to the Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office saying it couldn’t bring an inmate who was slated to be a witness in a murder trial because it was “having difficulties with making fuel purchases at the current time.”
The official then asked the state’s attorney’s office to push the trial back later in May “when the probability is more likely that we will be able to obtain fuel while on the road if needed.”
Samuel T. Clay Jr., 23, was to go on trial Tuesday in Peoria. He is charged with the October 2015 shooting of 14-year-old Tommie T. Forest III after a home invasion, but when the prison said it couldn’t deliver a witness — who had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated battery — the trial was delayed.
An emailed request for more information, including the policy on buying gas and how many prisoners were affected, was not immediately answered by a DOC spokeswoman.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/zz/news/20180509/illinois-murder-trial-delayed-when-state-cant-buy-gas-to-transport-witness?rssfeed=true
Less than three years ago, IOC touted its prison work program for producing $52.6 million worth of products. In 2016, Illinois was $32 million behind in prison utility bills.
Does the Illinois government not know the word “budget?”
Link at http://knuckledraggin.com/2018/05/maybe-they-should-try-recycling-cans-for-gas-money/
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