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New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half

New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half
Colette Payne (right) speaks at the annual Mother s Day vigil, organized by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, outside Cook County Jail in Chicago. Payne and other organizers at the Women s Justice Institute released a report detailing the impact of incarceration on women and explaining how to dramatically reduce the Illinois women s prison population.
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of women incarcerated across the United States increased by 700 percent. In Illinois, womenâs incarceration increased by 767 percent during that same time period. While that number has slowly decreased over the past two decades, the 1,418 women in the stateâs prisons at the end of 2020 is still more than quadruple the 401 women imprisoned in 1980. (These numbers only include people in Illinoisâs âwomenâs prisons;â they exclude people in womenâs jails and trans women i ....

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Statewide Women's Justice Task Force Announces the $1 Billion Proposition: A Groundbreaking Plan to Cut Women's Prison Population by 50% and Beyond

Statewide Women’s Justice Task Force Announces the $1 Billion Proposition: A Groundbreaking Plan to Cut Women’s Prison Population by 50% and Beyond
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Accelerated by the unanticipated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois is on track to become the first state in the nation to achieve such a reduction
CHICAGO (PRWEB)
April 28, 2021
Today, the Statewide Women’s Justice Task Force, organized by the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI) with funding from major philanthropic organizations, hosted an event to release an historic plan to reduce the number of women incarcerated in Illinois prisons by 50%+ and beyond to an audience of over 300 people. ....

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