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Week ending Dec. 10: four inmates sentenced in St. Clair County to be released

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There are four inmates sentenced to jail in St. Clair County set to be released from the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections during the week ending Dec. 10.

The inmate being released who served the longest time was Ramon Wilson for murder with the intent to kill or injure. Ramon Wilson spent more than 20 years incarcerated.

According to The Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability, Illinois spends about $37,000 a year per incarcerated person. In a study by Prison Policy Initiative, Illinois’ incarceration rate was at 564 per 100,000, higher than every industrialized country, except the United States. When compared with its surrounding states, Illinois was the lowest. Kentucky and Missouri have rates over 850 per 100,000.

One of the issues is how pretrial detainees are now handled. The Vera Institute of Justice noted that pretrial detainees made up 71% of the total jail population.

Most prison inmates are released on some condition of supervised monitoring upon reentering civilian life. This monitoring can last from one year to the rest of someone’s life.

Inmates being released who were sentenced in St. Clair County
NameOffenseSupervised Release DateHolding Facility
Cortez HollinsUUW-FELON POSS/USE FIREARM PRIOR2022-12-04Menard Correctional Center
Hans SteinertPOSS 400>900 GR ECSTASY/ANALOG2022-12-05Illinois River Correctional Center
Kenneth KirkpatrickRESIDENTIAL BURGLARY2022-12-08Robinson Correctional Center
Ramon WilsonMURDER/INTENT TO KILL/INJURE2022-12-09Pinckneyville Correctional Center

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