An estimated 50,000 felons have been released from Illinois prisons or county probation without submitting DNA samples as required by law, leaving a gaping hole in the 7-year-old program designed to link known criminals to unsolved crimes.
county probation departments did not secure samples from 40,000 additional felons, mostly in Cook County, due to delays in implementing the law.
Despite the glitches, Illinois has been able to collect and store DNA samples from more than 300,000 offenders, and the DNA database has yielded around 9,000 hits of some kind, state police said.
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