A decade ago, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls marched on Washington, bringing together hundreds of women and girls who had experienced firsthand the torture and devastation wrought on their families by mass incarceration. These women and girls - who had been incarcerated or had suffered as a mother, sister, or daughter was incarcerated - were brought together by one message: Free Her Now. 

Ten years later, more women and girls are incarcerated than ever before. Today, that number is six times higher than it was in 1980. Mothers are being separated from their children and grandchildren, daughters cannot care for aging parents, and families experience catastrophic loss - of loved ones, housing, jobs, and security.

And so we must march again. On April 24, 2024, The National Council, Giving Others Dreams, Talk 2 Me Foundation, Women’s Justice Institute, Beyond the Walls the Movement, Art from the Heart, and Illinois Alliance for Reentry & Justice, along with many other organizations and individuals impacted by the criminal legal system, their families and families of current incarcerated women and girls from all across the US will once again descend on the nation’s capital to fight for reproductive justice in every way possible including demanding the end of incarceration of women and girls; the full restoration of voting rights for women and girls regardless of conviction or

incarceration status; the restoration of rights for women returning from prisons and jails; comprehensive and need-specific access to reentry services, such as community-designed and delivered accountability, supportive and transitional housing; and the reimagining of communities as places of care and support.

Sponsorships are available!

For more information email illinoisalliancereentryjustice@gmail.com

Click here to register to attend (Note: Some scholarships are available for directly impacted women and their minor children to attend.)

Click here to register to attend the event.

Click here to make a donation.

The Aurora Participatory Democracy Hub (The Hub) is hosting a FREE film screening for No Cop Academy on December 7, 2023, from 6:30 pm CT to 8:30 pm CT at Society 57 followed by a conversation with two of the No Cop Academy activists and the filmmakers, Soapbox Productions and Organizing.

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Indivisible Aurora, Illinois Alliance for Reentry & Justice, and Black Alliance for Peace with the financial support of REFORM Alliance have launched a participatory democracy hub in Aurora, IL. Currently, local legislation is driven by politically connected organizations and people. Entire communities are excluded from any input in the legislative process, which constitutes the feedback, ideation, and creation of laws. The hub attempts to change this by establishing a participatory democracy hub in Aurora, IL that will empower the community to play an active role in local democracy.

The hub participatory democracy practice includes:

• Political Education (PoliEd) Events

  • 9/24/2023, 10/1/2023, 10/15/2023, 10/22/2023 & 1/14/2024

• Community events

  • 11/2/2023 Film Screening of Beyond Walls

  • 12/7/2023 Film Screening of No Cop Academy; and

• 1/27/2024 People’s Movement Assembly

Click here to register for the PoliEd Events

Click here to register for the Community Events

Join us for the official release of our 2022 Guidelines. We are redefining reentry to be bigger in that it must start at the first point of contact. Reentry must also be broader in that it must include providing services to the entire family entangled. Finally, reentry must be better in that it must be holistic, focused on healing the 5 social determinants of health, comprehensive, and coordinated. Click here to register for this hybrid event.

The IL Alliance will be participating on Justice and Equity panel for Commissioner Deer’s Juneteenth Event on June 17, 2022 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at Malcolm X College. Click here to register.

We are coming together as a community to repeal and replace the ‘94 Crime Bill. Virtual and limited in-person attendance available.

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SAVE THE DATE: Safer’s Annual CARRE Conference is taking place on December 7th.

Making Illinois a Second Chance State

Guest Speakers:

1. Speaker Emmanuel “Chris” Welch

2. Congresswoman Cori Bush

Check back later for more details!

SAVE THE DATE: Safer’s Annual CARRE Conference is taking place on November 9th. Check back for more details!