Illinois Prisoner Review Board official quits amid controversy over release of man accused of killing boy, 11, attacking mother

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Illinois Prisoner Review Board official quits amid controversy over release of man accused of killing boy, 11, attacking mother
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A state parole official quit her post following her role in allowing a parolee with a history of violence against women to be released from state custody before, authorities say, he attacked a preg…

Teea Smith, an aunt to Jayden, lights candles at a memorial for Jayden Perkins, a 11-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in his home on March 13, on Friday, March 15, 2024, outside Perkins' home in Chicago.

Friends and family release balloons at a memorial for Jayden Perkins, an 11-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in his home on March 13, 2024. A memorial outside the home of Jayden Perkins, 11, who was stabbed to death in his home on March 13. Police investigate the scene of an apparent fatal domestic violence incident on the 5900 block of N. Ravenswood Ave., which fatally wounded 11-year-old Jayden Perkins and seriously injured his mother on March 13, 2024, in Chicago.

Miller, a former school district administrator from southern Illinois, could not be reached for comment. Last week, Pritzker indicated that changes needed to be made in the ways that the court system, law enforcement agencies and the Prisoner Review Board communicate when dangerous criminals are released from prison.

A photo of Jayden Perkins, a 11-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in his home on March 13, at a memorial on Friday, March 15, 2024, outside Perkin’s home in Chicago. Brand came to the home Smith shared with her mother shortly after she broke up with him in 2006, waved a gun at them and threatened them. At one point, he fired the gun in their hallway before fleeing, according to a motion filed by prosecutors in an unrelated case seeking to admit past crimes.

Later, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a November 2015 attack on another woman, who had also ended a relationship with him, according to court documents. He also threatened her son when he tried to intervene.

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