George Ryan Spends Little Time in Halfway House: Facebook Feedback
Readers shared their views on former Governor George Ryan getting sent home for house arrest after staying a few hours at a halfway house Wednesday. Was the punishment lessened, or an under-resourced system spared another number?
Updated, 11:10 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
George Ryan spent a few hours at a halfway house on Chicago's West Side, before prison authorities decided to let him serve the remainder of his 6.5-year prison sentence at home in Kankakee on house arrest.
Ryan's attorney Jim Thompson, another former governor, said he didn't request the move to house arrest, reports the Chicago Tribune. Thompson said the move came because Ryan is 79 years old and wouldn't need common halfway house services, such as writing checks and resumes.
More than six dozen individuals were indicted and convicted in the Operation Safe Road investigation that ensnared Ryan.
Orland Park Patch's Facebook fans had this to say Wednesday:
- Larry Allen: Does that mean he is a free man, If so I'm really MAD as HELL.
- Julie Doyle: wonders why they would waste the time to send him there in the first place if he wasnt going to be there until July...
- Billy Madden: While all these people will say they feel sorry for him, and that he has served his time, I wonder how the Willis family feels about it?
- Sophie Yasin: Must be nice!!! I'm sure there are 2 families who are not happy --- the victim of the truck accident and the blagojevich's... Justice has not been served. He shouldn't get special treatment because of his age!
- Larry Allen: He has not served his time, not fair FREE OUT OF JAIL CARD. Anyone of us would have to do the full sentence.
- Alan Perkaus: For one item it has saved us some money. He still has to follow the rules. For another in a very short period of time he will be 79 I don't think he will be running away.The programs in the half way house aren't set up for a man who is chronologically challenged.
- Karen James Whitney: It stinks to high heaven just like everything else pertaining to politics in this state.
- Janine Manhatton Sullivan: He is on house arrest and cannot leave without written notice from the prision board.
- Kevin Murphy: He went as part of the release protocol and yes he's now free. I'd guess probation but likely that's meaningless.
- Thomas Gorz: The Board does that in some cases, a) he was in a prison for first time offenders (petty things) b) the half way house mixes 1st timers & repeat and/or major crime offenders.
- Lorraine Schwartzkopf Panozzo: Thinking about the Willis family, only people that matter, in this sad story.
- Karen Sendera: He should have died there. What's with the special treatment? There was no special treatment given to John Ambrose with his prison location. Illinois is a joke!
- Marilyn Zemanek-Bailey: typical Illinois- but remember we vote for these people.
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voklst
8:52 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
I was attending X-ray school in a special class learning about X-ray techs for a coroners dept county work. The teacher
told us of a case he had to film for X-ray.
A womans body came in and he later received a call she was pregnant....
Turns out she'd had her baby cut out of her stomach.
They later found the baby returned to her parents. The people who killed her and cut the baby out of her stomach and stold it...
Put on Death Row.
Years later when Ex-gov Ryans sh** hit the fan...What are The odds I had become a CDL truck driver. I had to renew my license. I get all the way to the McCook office to find in closed. Now I was forced to go to Morris, IL. to renew my license.
So when all is said & done....Ryan suspends all death row convicted felons...
How do that womans parents feel about
their daughters murderers and granddaughters kidnappers possibly getting out on the streets?
All the people writing in about Ryans kindness blah blah blah must be relatives of the convicted felons.
Sara
10:23 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
voklst - the system was extremely flawed. when we falsely imprisoned numerous people and some put to death, something had to be done. the prisoners who were on death row are serving out life in prison.
the drivers licenses sold were not sold by Gov Ryan but greedy employees. to this day you can buy a license if you find the person who will take your money.
John Paul
11:19 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
The main idea of sending someone to a halfway house is to help an offender readjust back into society. The focus is on helping someone learn how to find and hold a job. At Ryan's age, he really doesn't need that, so why spend taxpayer money on it. It is more cost efficient to keep him on house arrest.
voklst
12:02 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
@Sara no Ryan did not sell thr drivers lic.
He took the Money.....click on the blue
URL above....Operation saferoad investigation..
.Read It.... All those greedy employees
came up with this brilliance individually?
All on their own? Without any encouragement from anyone? OK one
further...instead of lining Their Own Pockets....the "donate" it to Ryan because
they are all individually Greedy? Sorry,
Hard Sell....Try another angle....
your painted picture is many pixels shy
of a full screen.
voklst
12:02 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
@john paul I agree with you why waste
more funds on that man. Let him wear
his little anklet in his Kankakee house.
No more Starbucks, White Castles, Ditkas,
Harry Careys, Gibsons, Mortons,Magnums,
or anybody else...Let all his family and Pea Pod deliver to him. While the parents of those children visit their kids graves.
voklst
12:02 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2006/03/inspect_this_ge.html
Sara a little more insight for you....
follow the money.