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State prisons are not overcrowded if you ask the Illinois Department of Corrections. “We are currently below capacity,” says Sharyn Elman, IDOC spokeswoman. Others disagree. “Overcrowding has been a longstanding problem in the state’s prisons,” says Anders Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, which represents guards. John […]