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I escaped the death penalty — my sentence was commuted to life without parole. But the nightmares, the trauma and the despair will always haunt me.

Sherman Morisette served 35 years in prison for robbing a Chicago taxi driver at gunpoint on Christmas Eve in 1983.

Fewer than one in ten prison staffers have received a booster, even as cases spike in correctional facilities across the state.

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.

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.”

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.