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DUI Offenders Politically Re-Classified as ?Violent?, Returned to Prison

By Lawrence Taylor

In today’s DUI double standard department: Early Release Sends Some DUI Offenders Back to Prison Chicago, IL.  Dec. 25 — Anti-drunken driving advocates reacted angrily earlier this week when the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that Gov. Quinn’s administration had released 18 felony drunken drivers from prison early to serve the rest of their prison time on home confinement. On Thursday, those same anti-DUI advocates were cheering after the governor ordered all 18 back behind bars to serve the remainder of their prison time. Each will be paroled between mid-January and mid-October under the terms of their original sentences. "That is a delightful Christmas story," said David Malham, a victim-services specialist with Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Chicago...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).