By DOUG FINKE
Springfield State Journal Register
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- An unmarked state helicopter might have come perilously close to being fired upon when it landed in a fenced-in area just outside the Pontiac Correctional Center last week, the prison guards’ union says.
When an inmate on a nearby work detail began walking toward the helicopter, an officer in a guard tower saw the inmate and, thinking an escape might be in progress, drew his weapon, a union spokesman said Tuesday ... Full Story