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This article comes from a local newspaper owned by Dan Proft, a local radio host, political activist and now a newspaper man trying to actually inform Illinois voters about the mess the state is in....and here is the crime beat...all of the repeat, violent offenders who keep getting out of jail, even with long prison sentences.....
The first thug, should be serving a 50 year sentence...he was out in 14 years......with multiple gun, murder and violent crime felonies....
Should Illinoisans be more worried about Rod Blagojevich, or A.J. Bibbs?
Still more time to menace society
The last time A.J. Bibbs served prison time, he was given a 50-year sentence. He served only 14.
At age 21, Bibbs broke into an Oak Forest apartment and shot one of its residents after robbing him. Then, while in Cook Cook County jail awaiting trial and sentencing, he fatally stabbed a fellow inmate with a knife.
Admitted to Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg in Nov. 1995, Bibbs was released in June 2009, at age 35.
A year after his release, he was arrested again, for starting a “shootout” after he tried to rob a grocery store in south suburban Dolton.
Alas, Bibbs, who is registered to vote in Calumet City and, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE), cast a ballot in the 2012 general election, started the second state prison term of his adult life in February.
His sentence this time: 35 years. IDOC projects he’ll serve seven.
Murderers, rapists, child molesters
In light of Blagojevich’s firm 14-year sentence, Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire, examined IDOC inmate records to see what types of crimes merit 14 years in state prison these days.
LGIS found that in 2016 alone, IDOC released back into the public 37 criminals from state prisons who had, like Bibbs, served between 13 and 14 years in state prison-- the same term that Blagojevich will.
The group includes cop killers, child torturers, chronic thieves and worse. Most served a fraction of their original sentences; some have already been arrested for the same crime and are en route back to state prison.
Among them:
Terry Stockley of Maywood, released Sept. 12, 2016, was sentenced to 30 years for aggravated battery of a child and heinous battery. She was charged in 2001 with torturing her female partner’s 11-month-old daughter; the baby had “burns covering her torso and genitalia, two broken arms, several broken ribs, and a broken leg,” according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Released Aug. 16, 2016, Tajuan Murray of Chicago’s Austin neighborhood was 27 and dealing drugs out of his walk-up apartment when he fatally shot Chicago Police Officer Dell Fountain, who lived downstairs. He received 44 years in state prison, but served less than one-third of the sentence.
The first thug, should be serving a 50 year sentence...he was out in 14 years......with multiple gun, murder and violent crime felonies....
Should Illinoisans be more worried about Rod Blagojevich, or A.J. Bibbs?
Still more time to menace society
The last time A.J. Bibbs served prison time, he was given a 50-year sentence. He served only 14.
At age 21, Bibbs broke into an Oak Forest apartment and shot one of its residents after robbing him. Then, while in Cook Cook County jail awaiting trial and sentencing, he fatally stabbed a fellow inmate with a knife.
Admitted to Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg in Nov. 1995, Bibbs was released in June 2009, at age 35.
A year after his release, he was arrested again, for starting a “shootout” after he tried to rob a grocery store in south suburban Dolton.
Alas, Bibbs, who is registered to vote in Calumet City and, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE), cast a ballot in the 2012 general election, started the second state prison term of his adult life in February.
His sentence this time: 35 years. IDOC projects he’ll serve seven.
Murderers, rapists, child molesters
In light of Blagojevich’s firm 14-year sentence, Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire, examined IDOC inmate records to see what types of crimes merit 14 years in state prison these days.
LGIS found that in 2016 alone, IDOC released back into the public 37 criminals from state prisons who had, like Bibbs, served between 13 and 14 years in state prison-- the same term that Blagojevich will.
The group includes cop killers, child torturers, chronic thieves and worse. Most served a fraction of their original sentences; some have already been arrested for the same crime and are en route back to state prison.
Among them:
Terry Stockley of Maywood, released Sept. 12, 2016, was sentenced to 30 years for aggravated battery of a child and heinous battery. She was charged in 2001 with torturing her female partner’s 11-month-old daughter; the baby had “burns covering her torso and genitalia, two broken arms, several broken ribs, and a broken leg,” according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Released Aug. 16, 2016, Tajuan Murray of Chicago’s Austin neighborhood was 27 and dealing drugs out of his walk-up apartment when he fatally shot Chicago Police Officer Dell Fountain, who lived downstairs. He received 44 years in state prison, but served less than one-third of the sentence.
