Bruce Rauner appointed Coles County Sheriff’s Deputy John W. Clough to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Clough was overheard using a derogatory slur toward African Americans “not once, but twice,” according to Sheriff’s office personnel files. Despite state law, the board fails to keep its minutes of board meetings available for review; the board has not yet provided Injustice Watch minutes of past board meetings that were requested on Nov. 13. But unofficial records taken by members of the John Howard Association, a prisoners’ advocacy group, show that in his first eight months on the board, Clough voted in favor of paroling only one inmate out of the 55 inmates whose cases the board considered.