The agency that runs Illinois prisons has more inmates than it has room for.
Fifty-thousand in a system built for 33,000.
So now the agency— the Illinois Department of Corrections--says it will house more inmates in prison gymnasiums.
Many of the people crowding into the facilities are not all the hardened criminals you see on T.V.
As Illinois Public Radio's Robert Wildeboer reports, a large number of inmates are there on rather trivial charges:
