COVID19 UPDATE: NEWSOM COMMUTES SENTENCES
SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday pardoned five people who had already served their time and commuted the sentences of 21 state prison
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IDOC: Video Visiting Tutorial
We know it is sometimes hard to find information or help when setting up a new account to visit or communicate with a
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ACT NOW, MR. PRESIDENT
OUR LEADERS HAVE THE POWER TO RELEASE PEOPLE IN PRISON. NOW THEY MUST USE IT. State governors and the president have the authority
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ALERT: STATEVILLE COVID-19 WILDFIRE
“I’m concerned because I know it can go through there like wildfire.” We are getting reports of men at Stateville Correctional Center having
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COVID-19 ALERT: SOAP SHORTAGES
Illinois prisons are a tinderbox for a potential coronavirus outbreak, but advocates and family of prisoners say the Department of Corrections isn’t providing
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Mission Statement
Parole Illinois aims to change the perceptions, policies, and power relations that have maintained mass incarceration and extreme-sentencing in our state. We pursue
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CUOMO SOUNDS DIRE WARNING
ALBANY — As new cases and deaths from COVID-19 increased, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday ordered non-essential construction projects to stop, and
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PRISON ALERT: COVID-19
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced this week that Illinois prisons would be closed to new inmates in response to growing concern about the COVID-19
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Coronavirus Lockdown
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — Two Illinois Department of Corrections facilities are locked down because inmates are sick. The facilities are Southwestern Illinois Correctional
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Raul Dorado: LWOP
I wake up each morning with the burden of having to serve another day of a life sentence in prison. This debt to
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