New Report Shows Aging Inmate Population Is Straining Prison System
The growth of the elderly population within prisons has far outpaced the general prison population. From 1972 to 2022, the amount of people
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Thank You To Illinois Humanities
Immense thanks to the Illinois Humanities Envisioning Justice Initiative for a generous grant to help use educate policymakers about the value to our
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Pilates For Parole
After pushing the Pretrial Fairness Act, join us for some pre-Thanksgiving toning! Open to all ages and abilities! Two chances to join us
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Support The Campaign For Corrective Clemency
The Campaign for Corrective Clemency seeks to convince Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to exercise his executive clemency powers in an expansive manner to
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Defend The Pretrial Fairness Act
January is quickly approaching and after years of organizing, Illinois is set to end money bond and reduce pretrial jailing in 2023 with
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Lying Illinois Prison Officers Go Unpunished In 2018 Inmate Death
Three former Illinois prison guards face life behind bars after the 2018 fatal beating of a 65-year-old inmate in a case marked by
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The War On Drugs Has Failed
The War on Drugs has failed and everyone knows it. 79% of Illinois voters support reclassifying sentences for all drug offenses. In 2016
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End The War On Drugs
The Reducing Barriers to Recovery report recommends reclassifying simple possession of a personal use quantity of a controlled substance from a felony to
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Legal Slavery
Joe Dole, the policy director of Parole Illinois and author of A Costly American Hatred, notes that thousands of companies, their employees and
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