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Poor record keeping in Illinois prisons keeping people behind bars

IPP Legal Director Candace Chambliss talks about client Andrew Suh and problems implementing a new law that provides sentencing credit for education, work, and other activities.

A woman who says she shot and killed abuser seeks early release after unfavorable IL Supreme Court decision

Due to a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling, IPP client Marseilles Redmond – an incarcerated domestic violence survivor – was prevented from seeking resentencing since she had pled guilty in her original case.

Black Sexual Violence Survivors Are Telling Their Stories — Only to Be Punished

Despite #MeToo, the criminal legal system remains skeptical when survivors, particularly Black women, defend themselves.

Ex-Felons Are Working To Get Out The Vote Among Former Illinois Inmates

Ex-Felons Are Working To Get Out The Vote Among Former Illinois Inmates

Despite vaccine mandate, IDOC staff only at 44% inoculation

Less than half of the staff members with the Illinois Department of Corrections are vaccinated despite the mandate from Gov. JB Pritzker that all state workers in congregate care facilities get the shot.

Thousands of women are serving life in U.S. prisons. Their history of trauma is often overlooked.

The vast majority of people serving life sentences in U.S. prisons are men. But the number of lifers who are women has increased dramatically in recent years, and evidence suggests that many of them have complicated histories with trauma and violence that courts often overlook.