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IPP Ambassador Rogelio Richart is growing his family business & providing jobs to other formerly incarcerated people. IPP Community Navigator Vincent Boggan says we must prepare incarcerated people for successful lives in the community.

IPP Legal Director Candace Chambliss talks about client Andrew Suh and problems implementing a new law that provides sentencing credit for education, work, and other activities.

Due to a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling, IPP client Marseilles Redmond – an incarcerated domestic violence survivor – was prevented from seeking resentencing since she had pled guilty in her original case.

IPP client Pat Johnson is one of hundreds of gender-based violence survivors who have been incarcerated for the actions of their abusers under little-known “theory of accountability” laws. Learn Pat’s story and how IPP attorney Rachel White-Domain and the Women and Survivors Project fights tirelessly to free Pat and other survivors.

This important Chicago Reader article features IPP client Hannah Finnegan and the challenges facing incarcerated transgender people in Illinois, explaining that “correctional staff often fail to listen to transgender prisoners and are disconnected from their needs.”

Pat Johnson ended up in prison for murder — one of nearly 100 people nationwide the Marshall Project identified who were convicted of assisting, supporting or failing to stop a crime by their alleged abusers.