SPRINGFIELD, IL—Illinois State Senator William Delgado (D-Chicago) will be joined by his fellow colleagues to discuss crime reduction in Illinois and how our state compares to others across the nation.

“I will be participating in the panel discussing The Illinois Crime Reduction Act: A Data-Driven, Best-Practices Approach to Crime Reduction,” said Delgado, Chairman of the Senate Public Health Committee.  “As a former felony parole and probation officer, this is a subject that I am very familiar with.”

This seminar aims to deepen the media’s understanding of critical sentencing, incarceration and re-entry issues now before the Illinois legislature, and much of the nation.  In addition, the focus will also look to how these issues are being affected by the escalating corrections costs, declining state revenues, a national fiscal crisis, and hard choices that are affecting not only Illinois, but every state in the nation.

This seminar is being conducted by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice which is the nation's leading practice-oriented think tank­ bringing together journalists, scholars and practitioners with the aim of improving the quality of criminal justice journalism. 

The Center provides a non-partisan forum for discussion, networking and information-sharing between the media and the criminal justice community.  The Center is devoted to encouraging and developing high-quality reporting on criminal justice, and to promoting better-informed public debate on the complex 21st-century challenges of law enforcement, public security and justice.