Our coalition works directly with stakeholders inside the community and across the walls to improve public safety. We are normalizing our new framework for how we support families entangled with the criminal legal system with community designed and delivered holistic support from the earliest point possible. See more here.

The Illinois Alliance for Reentry & Justice operates the largest paid, directly-impacted led professional Courtwatching program in the United States. Through careful observation and public education, we improve the accountability of Cook County’s criminal legal system one scribble at a time. See more here.

Taking control over our social determinants of health, both within carceral settings and in the community, remains key to public health and safety. We are centering harm reduction and reparative outcomes as the focus of policy changes. Our belief in transformative justice is why we work directly with our community partners and other persons in the care and custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. See more here.

Community connection is a bedrock principle of transformative justice. Transforming systems of care and accountability means having all members of our community present and engaged. The longer someone is excluded from their community, the harder it is for them to believe that they have a place in it. We are shifting power dynamics through the politicization of groups generally convinced that they do not have political power and those that have even been deliberately stripped of their political power. See more here.