Sentenced to life for gruesome Barrington killing, he’s now free at 49. Here’s why

Less than three decades after he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for a grisly suburban murder, Paul Modrowski quietly left the Stateville Correctional Center a free man last week. The release of the 49-year-old convicted of murdering a man found decapitated in Barrington, and the reasons for ir, raise complicated questions about equal justice, rehabilitation, disability bias and survivors’ rights.

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