“This is not a handout – Home for Good is a hand UP” - Illinois Rep. Maurice West. Thanks to everyone who attended our #HomeForGoodIL town hall in Rockford to learn why housing is the most important factor of reentry. Visit homeforgoodillinois.com to help build stronger communities!
Home for Good is in Rockford this morning for an important conversation with Rep. Maurice West about Home for Good (SB4162), legislation that seeks to expand access to housing for people leaving incarceration.
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Each year, the Illinois prison system releases 15,000 people a year – the vast majority of whom experienced housing instability or homelessness before their incarceration. Join us in supporting #HomeForGoodIL! homeforgoodillinois.com
Home for Good (SB4162) is a smart cost-effective response to the housing instability faced each year by people leaving incarceration.
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Learn more about the legislation at homeforgoodillinois.com.
And read more here:
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Home for Good, a legislative initiative aimed at creating safer, stronger communities by improving housing and support services for people returning from prison, is unveiled in Springfield. #HomeForGoodIL
Follow the Home for Good campaign here: homeforgoodillinois.com
Home for Good, a legislative initiative aimed at creating safer, stronger communities by improving housing and support services for people returning from prison, is unveiled in Springfield. #HomeForGoodIL
Follow the Home for Good Coalition campaign here: homeforgoodillinois.com
Great insights here on unaddressed needs of exonerated people, with details on efforts by @senatorelgiesims.bsky.social to find a solution.
Also a reminder of need for statewide, systemic approach to ensure all those returning home can access what they need.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/i...
This Chicago Tribune opinion piece underscores a key point of policymaking: Evaluation. Everyone should do it.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/o...
“You’re not going to have a successful reentry, you’re not going to have a successful reintegration if there is housing instability,” Garza said. “Secure housing, stable housing, safe housing will answer all of your reentry issues.”
Rare survey done in IDOC shows at least 2/3 of incarcerated people experienced homelessness or housing instability in 3 years prior to entering prison. Illinois needs a statewide reentry housing strategy to ensure effective reentry into society, advocates say.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Our hearts go out to Bethany MaGee and her family, who experienced an unimaginable horror.
Unfortunately, some are blaming the Pretrial Fairness Act. Here is what they have gotten wrong: endmoneybond.org/pretrial-ref...
Great lineup today at the symposium on the SAFE-T Act. Click link below to listen in.
If you followed the SAFE-T Act, which mandated major police reforms in Illinois, tune in Thursday at 2:30 p.m. for the 2025 Cline Symposium Panel at the U of I.
Experts @thedou13.bsky.social Craig Futterman, Aisha Davis and Larry Boone discuss impact of the law.
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A thorough look here at how overworked public defenders are across the state - and why a new public defender system was needed.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/n...
Last night, our own Director of Criminal Legal System Loren Jones was featured on a WTTW - Chicago PBS #ChicagoTonight panel discussing racial profiling and the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision in Noem v. Perdomo.
www.youtube.com/live/UzeV5fo...
Meet the people stopping gun violence in Chicago on License to Operate, a new podcast available now posting on YouTube. In the first episode, my cohost Kanoya Ali and I talk about our two different worlds and what has brought us to the work.
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From this week's ILJP news roundup of legal system reform stories: The Chicago Reporter explores use of the Joe Coleman Act, which created a pathway for people with complex medical needs to be released from Illinois prisons.
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Illinois is defending the Pretrial Fairness Act. We will not bow down to Trump.
Read our statement on the President's attack on the end of money bail in Illinois:
endmoneybond.org/2025/08/25/i...
How youth are changing the conversation on gun violence and risks.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/p...
Gov. Pritzker acted on a bunch of bills Friday, including this important one:
Description: Creates the FAIR Act to establish the Office of State Public Defender and an independent State Public Defender Commission.
Action: Signed
Learn more about what the FAIR Act does here:
fairactil.org
Crime is down in Chicago. If you like context and want to understand what true public safety demands, give a listen to to this @sashaannsimons.bsky.social report.
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Formerly incarcerated people live in every county in Illinois.
FirstFollowers welcomes them back to Champaign. Thoughtful report by @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social about their work, with focus how gardening is used to teach, feed and uplift.
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ILJP welcomes Arthur Haynes to our team as Program Director.
Arthur previously served as assistant corporation counsel in the Chicago Law Dept, coordinating mandated policing reforms. We are grateful for the expertise Arthur brings to the important work of legal system reform in Illinois.
With the Illinois General Assembly session winding down @tonia.thetriibe.com outlines five key legal system reform issues that are still pending.
Details on Home for Good and the FAIR Act by @thedou13.bsky.social @sharonemitchelljr.bsky.social
For every $1 spent on the Home for Good program, taxpayers save $6. Communities will be safer, and the money the state saves can be directed to education, job creation, reduced taxes or the environment.
To tell legislators you support this plan for public safety: homeforgoodillinois.com/letters/
The Home for Good Coalition needs your support now.
An investment of $47 million in housing and services will save $190 million over three years and build safer and stronger communities.
To tell your lawmaker you support HB3162/SB2403, send a letter here: homeforgoodillinois.com/letters/
45% of people leaving prisons in Illinois are unemployed for at least three years, adding to existing housing barriers. There is a solution pending in the General Assembly: Home for Good (HB3162/SB2403).
To ask your legislator for support, click here: homeforgoodillinois.com/letters/
60% of people getting support from community violence intervention (CVI) groups report housing needs. Home for Good (HB3162/SB2403) addresses that with expanded access to housing.
Ask your lawmaker to support the legislation here: homeforgoodillinois.com/letters/
"Clients and community members lose confidence in public defenders who are employed at the mercy of the very courts that seek to punish them."
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers speaks out in support of the FAIR Act in the Sun-Times!
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Housing access is fundamental to individual and community safety. And it supports statewide economic growth.
To tell your lawmaker you support Home for Good, follow instructions here: homeforgoodillinois.com/letters/