Check out this post by Raphael Sperry, president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, on the violence inherent in the design of Thomson Correctional Center See it here: http://designandviolence.moma.org/thomson-correctional-center-illinois-department-of-corrections/ Thomson’s planned conversion into a Federal supermaximum security prison raises the prospect of extended solitary confinement for hundreds of men, as at the infamous ADX Florence. There, the response […]

On July 9, 2014, Paul Wright and Alex Friedmann from the Human Rights Defense Center/Prison Legal News provided testimony to the FCC regarding the lowering of intrastate (in -state) prison phone rates.  Please click the attached video to view the entire broadcast.

Families with members in the prison system are already struggling. Having the phone company join into a partnership with prisons to take advantage of them is wrong. I was in prison twice between 2003 and 2008. I limited phone calls home to once a week and only one 20 minute call because the calls cost […]

Lea Green, whose son is incarcerated in Jessup, MD, participates in a radio interview roundtable about the Peace Initiative Symposium at the Jessup Correctional Institute.

http://www.stopmassincarceration.org/emergency-call-join-us-in-stopping-torture-in-us-prisons.html

“Mandatory Minimums” refer to sentences for particular crimes that judges cannot revise regardless of the culpability or circumstances of the offender. Photo credit: Overpass Light Brigade https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoOLB

Advance notice of an expungement summit for both juveniles and adults. The 2014 Adult and Juvenile Full Service Expungement Summit, presented by the Office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, will be be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014, at Living Word Christian Center, 7600 W. Roosevelt Road, Forest Park, IL. […]