“It’s not stupidity. . It’s a function of not caring about anything except channelling their gang animus toward some other gang member,” Judge Timothy Joyce said in handing down the sentences Tuesday.
“What’s changed? He’s done well in prison so far?” Judge Stanley Sacks asked prosecutors in court Thursday. “… When a person is in prison and he’s doing well, why is that a reward? He should do well.”
Cook County prosecutors’ new effort to reduce sentences for some longtime inmates will have an uphill climb before some judges, if its first week in court is any indication.
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