Crime & Safety

Inmate Ordered to Mental Hospital Still in County Jail

A Downstate man who threatened to rape and kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow has been left to languish in jail.

By Joseph Hosey

A Downstate man found unfit to face charges of threatening public officials and ordered off to a mental hospital almost two months ago remains stuck in the Will County jail.

"They informed my investigator they don't have a bed" available for 40-year-old Jason Chance, defense attorney Dan Kennedy said during a Wednesday morning hearing before Will County Judge Daniel Rozak.

Judge Rozak found Chance unfit to face his criminal case in April and ordered that he be sent to a Department of Human Services mental hospital. But Chance never made it out of the county jail.

Chance was convicted of threatening to rape and kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow. He made the threats in a Facebook post in 2010 and got a two-year prison sentence for it.

On top of the prison sentence, Chance was also hit with 30 months probation with special conditions. Chance allegedly violated that probation by making threatening telephone calls to Will County Judge Matthew Bertani and Channahon Village Clerk Janet Schumacher, as well as to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.

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