The Illinois Alliance Endorses the Abolition of Extended Terms in Sentencing (HB 4109)

HB 4109 would take important steps to reverse mass incarceration in Illinois by ending the racially targeted system of Extended Term sentencing in Illinois. Extended Term sentencing is an overly punitive facet of Illinois' criminal code, which permits the courts to add long stretches of additional prison time onto already excessive sentences. In some cases Extended Terms can impose a fivefold increase on a person’s prison term. The use of imposing extended terms has, as is the case in all criminal legal cases, been disproportionately used against Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people.
ABOLISH EXTENDED TERMS | WCRJ Site (center4racialjustice.org)