The new members of the 15-member board, now occupied with only 13 members, bring backgrounds in anti-domestic violence advocacy, probation, law enforcement and the clergy.
 

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Gov. JB Pritzker continues Illinois Prisoner Review Board restructuring following controversial rulings

Four new members of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board began work Monday on a panel whose controversial early-release decisions have repeatedly tested Gov. JB Pritzker politically and whose most consequential decision led to the homicide of an 11-year-old Chicago boy.

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