Guarding Grandpa

Illinois is spending money it doesn't have to keep convicts who can barely walk behind bars.

by Jessica Pupovac



Bill Heirens, infamous as Chicago's "Lipstick Killer," is the longest-serving inmate in the Illinois prison system. He's been behind bars since the age of 17, when he confessed to three gruesome murders that dominated the news headlines throughout the summer of '46.…

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/illinois-prisons-budget-elderly-old-inmates/Content?oid=3013140

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