Decarceration Nation (with Josh And Joel)

Josh talks to Katrina Burlet who was the coach of the Stateville Correctional Center Debate Team (until the Illinois DOC canceled the program with no explanation). Katrina Burlet heads the Justice Debate League in Illinois. The first story I read was this overview of what happened with Katrina's class. WGN-TV did a feature on the Stateville Debate team just before the class was canceled. Here is the referenced feature discussing juvenile lifers and the quote about numbness and parole. This is the evidence I found suggesting that the Illinois DOC controls parole. Katrina talked about her recent press conference, this Injustice Watch article was about the aftermath of that press conference. Katrina suggested that folks make FOIA requests to the Illinois Department of Corrections about Katrina Burlet's class. Here is a guide to making an FOIA request in Illinois. If you want to write letters to any of the inmates in the stories, you can look them up.