We advocate for fair legal system & prison policies in IL. Our focus: people serving life or extreme sentences their families. We 🧡 (and train new) advocates!
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ALT Infographic with text: Mail Scanning — How to push back against the harmful and ineffective practice in U.S. prisons
ALT Infographic with text: 50% of people in state prisons have a substance use disorder, but only 10% have received treatment. Prisons and jails are not meant to treat addiction.
ALT U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.
ALT Graphs showing that almost every parole board in 30 states is holding fewer hearings now than in 2019
ALT U.S. map showing 33 states with discretionary parole systems for most people serving sentences of incarceration
ALT Graph showing that the median felony bail amount is $10,000, yet the median annual pre-incarceration income for men & women aged 23-39 in local jails who were detained pretrial and unable to post a bail bond was $15,598 and $11,071, respectively (2015)
ALT Graphic with a golden background and text reading “Pushing for Pretrial Freedom: Celebrating Two Years of the Pretrial Fairness Act,”, " Tuesday, September 16th at 6pm CDT", "September 2025 marks two years since Illinois implemented the Pretrial Fairness Act and ended money bail. oin the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and some special guests for an online event marking this historic anniversary." There are pictures of a black men in a red suit, a white man with a beard and black hair, a Black woman with a yellow sweater, a Black man with yellow glasses and a silver chain, a bald Black man with a navy suit, a white woman wearing a black jacket and grey shirt, a bald Black man with a navy suit and bow tie, a white woman with a red shirt.
