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(The Center Square) – Illinois prison officials must transfer most people incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center to other Illinois prisons by Sept. 30, according to an order from a federal judge. A state senator raised concerns about some of them being released by a parole board. The case was originally filed in 2013. The original plaintiff, Lester Dobbey, was an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections in Stateville. He complained of unsanitary vermin in inmates’ living units and common areas, unbearable fluorescent lighting preventing inmates from getting prope…

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