From the Herald News:

A former Stateville prison inmate will spend more time behind bars after he admitted to writing a threatening letter to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Joseph Herman, 34, told Madigan he would kill her unless she gave him a large sum of cash.

Wearing a green prison uniform with a yellow stripe up the side and surrounded by guards, Herman pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening a public official. Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes then sentenced him to 15 more years in prison.

In May 2007, Herman and another Stateville inmate wrote the letter to the attorney general, Will County Assistant State’s Attorney Kathy Patton told the judge Wednesday. Herman clearly identified himself as a prison inmate in the letter, she said. “The threat was made because of the hostility of the defendant towards the position of Lisa Madigan,” according to court documents.

The letter told Madigan to leave $1 million for Herman at the emergency room of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Patton said. “Or the defendant and his Aryan brothers would blow up the house and car of Lisa Madigan and her husband,” she added.

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