I’ll confess that I was a bit shocked when I saw a headline about an ex-convict who was being sued by the state for the cost of incarcerating him. While it apparently happens in at least 41 states around the country, the focus is currently on Illinois, where the practice seems to be rather common. (Yahoo News)

This week, the Illinois criminal justice scandal making national headlines is the city of Chicago’s attempted cover-up of a video showing a police officer shooting a black man 16 times, resulting in the officer being charged with first-degree murder. But there’s another recent piece of news from the state that is similarly stomach-churning.

According to a Monday report from the Chicago Tribune, Illinois is ramping up the practice of suing former prisoners for huge sums of money for room and board while they were incarcerated. And the exploitative manner in which the state’s corrections department pursues the lawsuits raises even more questions than the very act itself.

Read the article “A Quick Look at Suing Prisoners for the Cost of Incarcerating Them” on hotair.com.