SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is reintroducing an early inmate release plan to ease prison crowding.

Lee Enterprises Newspapers Springfield Bureau reports (http://tinyurl.com/byqr846 ) that the Illinois Department of Corrections has started reviewing records of potentially eligible inmates.

A legislative committee approved rules for the program this week. Quinn signed them into law in June. A Corrections spokeswoman had no timetable for implementing the system for granting up to six months' time off an inmate's sentence.