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Former IPP client Dr. Janet Jackson, a criminalized survivor of domestic violence, describes the horrors of prison transfers and the need for a transfer plan for the women incarcerated at Logan Prison. Better yet, Dr. Jackson says, Illinois should reduce the prison population. "Why is Illinois doubling down on incarceration when there are less expensive alternatives, such as adopting earned release, passing the Credit for Change bill, and reinstating parole?"

Diagnosed with ALS behind bars, IPP client Gary Sams fought for healthcare and freedom before it was too late.

CAN-TV Channel 21 News interviewed IPP Education Director Renaldo Hudson and IPP clients and Ambassadors Terrance Robinson and Byron Merriweather about the experience of working while incarcerated for little to no pay.

Sister Helen Prejean and IPP Education Director Renaldo Hudson celebrate the 15th anniversary of Illinois abolishing the death penalty. Renaldo Hudson spent 13 years of his 37 years of incarceration on death row.

IPP is a proud member of the Credit for Change Coalition, fighting to give incarcerated people a chance to earn time off their sentences and return home as productive members of their communities. Learn more about this important campaign with these two recent articles in the Chicago Reporter

So-called "truth in sentencing" laws in the late 1990s prohibited people in IL prisons from earning time of their sentences with rehabilitative programming, leaving thousands destined to die in prison while costing the state billions each year to incarcerate an increasingly aging and sick population. Credit for Change would give people a chance to earn time off their sentences and return home as productive members of their communities.