Illinois Community Justice

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We archive, network and actively support Illinois based justice work on detention and incarceration. More than an information clearinghouse, the site is intended to serve as a catalyst for building community, connecting our current work, guiding new research, and shifting the public safety paradigm in Illinois. This site builds a culture of strategic research linked to justice work on prisons and incarceration, to redistribute resources based on a heightened awareness of needs and possibilities, and to demand greater transparency from criminal justice system actors.

Across Illinois, those incarcerated in prisons, jails and detention centers lack basic services, rates of incarceration continue to increase, and our communities are not any safer. When individuals and groups work to make changes to the system in Illinois, we often do so as individual survivors, as a part of single-issue organizations, or as scholars/researchers that work on a discrete topic. The dominant social service and scholarly frameworks fragment organizing, research and service delivery. This public accessible archive of Illinois-related justice work serves as tool to collectivize work in Illinois.

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