249 Ill. App. 3d 1021 - People v. Parson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 72 Ill. 2d 16 - People v. Harris · People v. Tannenbaum · 101 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Hicks
Most-quoted passages
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““First, I think it ought to be noted for the record that there has been references made by the attorneys, both the prosecution and for the defense, concerning punishment reflecting the possibility of rehabilitation. And I think it ought to be clear in everyone’s mind that it is the Court’s judgment that a penal institution is not a place where rehabilitation takes place. A penal institution is a place where people who have been convicted of crimes are sent in execution of their sentence. Early on it was considered that rehabilitative programs would take place during the incarceration period. But the Court is not aware of any American penal institution that lives up to the responsibility of having programs that cause people in their custody to change their ways, and come in convicted felons and go out as people who are not going to commit any further crimes. Any rehabilitation that takes place under the circumstances in the American institutions comes about only as a result of the individual inmates affirming that after execution of that sentence that inmate is not going to be involved in any other antisocial or illegal activity. There is no rehabilitation *** program that exists that is worthy of being named such in any of our penal institutions in the Court’s judgment. Accordingly], I sentence these gentlemen today and it is not just them, but that has been my posture since I adopted this attitude, I will be sentencing purely on the basis of punishment. The sentence that I w”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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