A is just one of 514 individuals we’ve provided free therapeutic support to. We are committed to keeping all services free, but operational costs for just one month of therapy are roughly $12,000. We would not be able to do it without the strength of our community.
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The inaugural Resilience Arts Festival is soon!
We hope you'll join us for a weekend of powerful storytelling. All work presented at the festival was written by or in collaboration with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists.
RSVP at resiliencefest.org.
Stanley Howard spent 16 long years in solitary confinement. He wrote about it for the @chicago.suntimes.com
#EndSolitaryConfinement
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President Trump has issued an executive order aimed at forcing states that have ended or reduced the use of money bail in the pretrial process to reverse those policies.
Tell Governor Pritzker & your legislators to defend the Pretrial Fairness Act: actionnetwork.org/letters/beat...
We are disappointed but unsurprised to see President Trump once again calling to repeal the Pretrial Fairness Act and bring money bail back to Illinois.
We will not be bullied by a President who is more concerned with his public image than he is public safety. endmoneybond.org/2025/08/11/t...
Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022.
Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...
Tenants rights are immigrant rights! Landlords CANNOT call ICE on you. Here are 5 things you can do if your landlord threatens to call ICE.
We have an unfortunate update about Victoria’s housing: the landlord has started the eviction process.
Victoria is only $1,000 away from reaching the required amount she needs to stay housed. Please donate so she can state housed!
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While we can never predict how the state and its agents will act, there are ways we can prepare--whether or not you decide to hit the streets--to stay safe and connected to community.
We keep us safe, Chicago!
All protest comes with risk. Use our risk assessment guide to determine how best you can take action or show up for your friends and loved ones who are taking action.
Mark Clements is a Chicago police torture survivor. At age 16 in 1981 he was taken to area 3 violent crime unit where he was tortured to confess to a crime. Mark was one of Illinois first juvenile’s sentence to natural life without parole in the state of Illinois. He remained incarcerated for 28 years before his conviction was overturned in 2009. In 2009 he was hired as administrator and organizer with the Campaign to End the Death Penalty in which he held other positions working from Chicago and Austin, Texas. He also helped to organize and establish the existence of the Illinois Fair Sentence of Youth through Northwestern University of School of Law, while sitting on the board of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Mark is with the Chicago Torture Justice Center as a Senior Community Organizer working in many complex areas of trauma and while attending court hearings and in support of others that were taken to police stations across the city of Chicago and tortured by members of the Chicago Police Department.
Mark Clements reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Gregory Banks Armanda Shackelford Alice Kim Hear from the organizers and survivors who fought for reparations that were won in 2015. registration encouraged: bit.ly/reflections-on-reparations panelists: PANEL 12-2pm NEW LOCATION: 6400 S Kimbark Ave (First Presbyterian Church) Saturday, May 31 COMMUNITY PARTY 2-6pm Come for the panel and stick around for the party! John Conroy
The panel will be held at John Knox Hall inside of The First Presbyterian Church (6400 S. Kimbark), just down the block from CTJC's office, from 12-2pm.
Then we will celebrate at CTJC (6337 S. Woodlawn) with food and music from 2-6pm.
Alice Kim is Director at the Center for Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the Universty of Chicago. She writes, teaches, and organizes around access to education for people who are incarcerated, capital punishment, police torture, and the prison system. She teaches at a maximum-security prison and leads the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project’s community-building efforts connecting scholars, teaching artists, and community leaders with incarcerated students. Alice is a co-founder of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a leader in the movement to end capital punishment in Illinois and nationwide and worked closely with the Death Row 10, and was instrumental in advocating for the successful blanket commutations of Illinois’s 167 death sentences in 2003.
Armanda Shackelford is a dedicated freedom fighter against carceral injustice. Armanda worked for Chicago Public Schools. Her son Gerald Reed was arrested in 1990 for a crime he didn't commit, and was tortured under the police era of Jon Burge. Gerald's torture continued in prison where he was denied medical treatment and subjected to cruelty by IDOC. Armanda won the support of thousands across the city to demand her son be freed. With her soft voice and loud demand, she shocked the core of the criminal justice system, and Gerald was exonerated and freed in April 2021.
Gregory Banks is an activist and the Chicago Torture Justice Center’s Safety Coordinator. He experienced abuse and torture at the Chicago Area 2 police station in 1983 and spent many years in the Illinois Department of Correction due to being tortured, and coerced into a false confession. Gregory is a former substance abuse counselor and avid reader. He spends his time going out into the community and educating Chicago Public School students on the topic of police violence and reparations.
John Conroy is the Senior Investigator at the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he works on wrongful conviction and other civil rights cases. In his former life, he was an investigative reporter, and his coverage of the Chicago police torture scandal spanned 22 years. His articles have been published in many publications. He is the author of two books, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, as well as the play My Kind of Town, set against the backdrop of the Chicago Police torture scandal, which premiered at Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre in May 2012.
We've gathered a brilliant panel lineup to help us reflect on the 10th anniversary of reparations. Come for the panel and stay for the party after!
Join us at First Presbyterian Church on May 31st:
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John Conroy is the Senior Investigator at the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he works on wrongful conviction and other civil rights cases. In his former life, he was an investigative reporter, and his coverage of the Chicago police torture scandal spanned 22 years. His articles have been published in many publications. He is the author of two books, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, as well as the play My Kind of Town, set against the backdrop of the Chicago Police torture scandal, which premiered at Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre in May 2012. reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Meet the panelists: John conroy
Screenshot of House of Screams article by John Conroy in the Chicago Reader
reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Hear from the organizers and survivors who fought for reparations that were won in 2015. registration encouraged: bit.ly/reflections-on-reparations PANEL 12-2pm 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave. Saturday, May 31 COMMUNITY PARTY 2-6pm Come for the panel and stick around for the party!
Introducing John Conroy, the investigative journalist who first unveiled police torture in Chicago in 1990.
Join us May 31st to hear directly from those involved in the fight and victory of reparations
bit.ly/reflections-on-reparations
Join the Chicago Torture Justice Center at the next TIRC meeting to commemorate and honor Attorney Stan Willis’s contributions to justice for survivors Wednesday May 21st 1:30pm 555 West Monroe St (TIRC)
Join us this Wednesday at the next Torture Inquiry Relief Commission (TIRC) to honor the life and legacy of Attorney Standish Willis, the founder of Black People Against Police Torture and the first attorney to call for reparations for survivors.
10 years ago today, reparations were won in Chicago.
#chicago #reparations
Pictured are Burroughs Legacy team at the Chicago Torture Justice Center with CTJC Executive Director Aislinn Pulley and Carl Williams, Burroughs Legacy Project narrator.
Carl is a torture survivor, activist, and now the Community Engagement Specialist at @chitorture.bsky.social.
We are deeply disturbed by Cook County State’s Attorney O’Neill Burke’s new policy requiring her attorneys to object when a judge denies a request for detention & instead orders someone to electronic monitoring.
Read our statement here: endmoneybond.org/2025/04/08/s...
“When am I going to get my life back?”
Registries don't keep our communities safe, they keep people in a cycle of perpetual punishment. We're working on abolishing the IL Murder Registry, which affects over 8,000 people in Illinois.
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Are you a renter? You have rights! Learn how to write a 14-day demand letter to your landlord This training is for any renter in the Chicago area presented by Chicago Torture Justice Center & Uptown People's Law Center Wednesday, Apr 2 5:30-7pm 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave
Attention renters! You have rights!
Join us on Wednesday, April 2nd to learn when and how to write a 14-day demand letter to your landlord.
The training is free and open to all renters in the Chicago area.
Wednesday, April 2nd
5:30-7pm
6337 S. Woodlawn Ave.
We're excited to collaborate with Concrete Content for this revival of THE PILLOWMAN that adapts the original play to reflect the history of police torture in Chicago.
Get your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepi...
Michelle Clopton & La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett, were some of the first women to come forward as torture survivors.
Listen to this episode of the Change Agents Podcast featuring both women:
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The Just Housing Amendment Free training for tenants and landlords In Cook County, landlords can't discriminate against renters just because they've been arrested or imprisoned Wednesday, March 12 5-6:30pm 6337 S Woodlawn Ave More info: 773-769-1411 uplc@uplcchicago.org
You have rights when renting with a record!
📌 The Just Housing Amendment
🗓 Wednesday, March 10
⏰ 5-6:30
📍 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave.
This event is free. No registration required.
Happening today!
The Illinois Murder Registry: Know your rights! The IL Murder Registry impacts over 8,000 Illinoisans and keeps them in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Learn about your rights when registering. Monday, February 24th 4:30-6pm 6337 S Woodlawn Free! RSVPs appreciated to naji@chicagotorturejustice.org
Instead of keeping communities safe, putting people on a registry keeps people & their families in a cycle of perpetual punishment.
The training is open to anyone impacted by the IL Murder Registry, directly or indirectly.
RSVPs are appreciated to naji@chicagotorturejustice.org
Court Support Social: building community power Wednesday, Feb 5th 5:30-7pm 6337 S Woodlawn Ave
Whether you’re already on our mailing list or not, please join us for our Court Support Social next week.
Now, more than ever, it’s important to get to know each other so we can act together!
Food will be provided.
Register: tr.ee/SM1WbJB3Q6
Justice for Timothy Glaze! Community vigil Murdered by police in the Albany Terrace Senior Building while experiencing a mental health crisis Join us for a community vigil honoring his life and uplifting the demands for justice Tuesday, February 4th, 6pm Albany Terrace 3030 W 21st St
Justice for Timothy Glaze!
TODAY (Tuesday, Feb.4)
Albany Terrace
3030 W 21st St
