Decarcerate Illinois

We urge Illinois elected officials to reduce the state's damaging reliance on incarceration and bring community accountability to policing.

[Chicago400 @chicago400]

ABOUT FEE WAIVERS + REGISTRIES:

Pple on registries pay $10, $20 or $100 per year to fill out forms at police. IL law gives police discretion to grant poor people a fee waiver.

To prove indigence, CPD made a form w/ invasive, intimidating + irrelevant questions.

@shrivercenter

[Decarcerate Illinois @DecarcerateIL]

Motivation to become an educated voter in the historic Chicago Police District Council elections.

https://t.co/WHxrn1X5Fs

[Decarcerate Illinois @DecarcerateIL]

Need info on the Feb 28 Police District Council elections?

Full info from accountability heroes @CAARPRNow:
https://t.co/5za0pb1dYt

Chicago Reader voter guide (avoid candidates who oppose accountability):
https://t.co/hfsSL8B4RM

Your police district:
https://t.co/5Sq05RqyHI

[Chicago400 @chicago400]

People w/ records need support not obstacles. Instead, they re-register decades AFTER they serve their time.
Police conduct 50k re-registrations per year. CPD conducts 23k re-registrations of 450 homeless people alone!
The laws are inexcusable.
@shrivercenter @HousingActionIL

[Joe Iosbaker @iosbakerjoe]

@WBEZ https://t.co/jbnyoVGard @CAARPRNow @AnthonyBryant38 @McGillFor7th @_AjDriver @ChicagoEcps
@ponchitathomas

[The Chicago Alliance @CAARPRNow]

NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! Come out this coming Monday to Federal Plaza at 6 PM to demand Justice for Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson, Manuel “Tortuguita” Teron, and all those murdered by police! Rain, snow, or shine, we will be out in the streets this coming Monday demanding JUSTICE,

[GoodKidsMadCity @GKMC18]

Did you know that last year #Chicago had the most #MassShooting’s in the country? This past weekend 10 teens were shot & yesterday 5 people were also shot! Meanwhile, the assault weapons ban is being attacked after being passed in IL & local leaderships won’t pass the #PeaceBook

[Decarcerate Illinois @DecarcerateIL]

Illinoisans urged to bookmark factcheck post on Safe-T Act.

“posts on social media have spread misleading claims about the changes to the cash bail system…”

https://t.co/lkt1qoLUld

[GoodKidsMadCity @GKMC18]

10 TEENS WERE SHOT OVER THIS WEEKEND IN #Chicago!

Over 200 children & teens were shot last year! We don’t have to live in fear like this! Our city needs healing & restoration now!
Pass the #PeaceBook ordinance now! Pass #treatmentnottrauma now!

https://t.co/9HxwfoqflL

[Amanda Klonsky @amandaklonsky1]

DCFS has long used the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center— a jail— to house children in their care when they run out of shelter beds. Kids can spend hundreds of days in confinement although they have not been charged with a crime. This is child abuse. https://t.co/tJnKyoimva

[Chicago400 @chicago400]

How is filling out the same form week after week and having it signed by police detectives -- or any other civilian staff -- improving community safety?
"'Paperwork is not police work,'" said Laurie Jo Reynolds...'No matter what you think police should be doing, this isn’t it.'"

[Chicago400 @chicago400]

Wow. Mayoral candidates need to catch up w/ the evidence and the reality.
"None of the mayoral candidates answered questions about whether they would support such changes to state legislation or if they would make changes to the city legislation mandating gun offense registries."

[Decarcerate Illinois @DecarcerateIL]

These conviction registries are political theater. Who can see that and who can't?

[Chicago400 @chicago400]

"Some victim advocates are part of the Chicago 400 Alliance and support shrinking the registries so government resources can be focused on violence prevention and solving crime."
They are attuned to what crime victims need, to real prevention + to what's just political theater.

[The Chicago Alliance @CAARPRNow]

revealing the history of torture as a pattern & practice of over 245+ detectives that we know of, many of whom remain on the force today. This, and the bulk of survivors and individuals whom this torture was inflicted upon still remain incarcerated to this day. That ain't right!

[The Chicago Alliance @CAARPRNow]

The state goes to incredible lengths to obscure survivors of Chicago Police Torture due process in their trials, and obtaining their rightful freedom.

The evidence has been made clear with the CFIST report on torture (https://t.co/vDrWh9DnIw),

[Decarcerate Illinois @DecarcerateIL]

Illinois, please read about the senselessness of public conviction registries. They drive new convictions and force people into lifelong adversarial police contact. @CAARPRNow @ChiAppleseed @SLKollmann @IndivChi_South @IndivisibleSJA @chicago400 @FullyFreeIL

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

For those who missed it, this is a great article about some of the senseless, harsh, and decades-long punishments people are subjected to while on criminal conviction registries in #Illinois.

A few highlights:
https://t.co/UgoW6j59nV

[IL Alliance for Reentry & Justice @IL_ARJ]

We cannot emphasize enough how useless registries are! They do not assist in successful reunification in any way and actually help to undermine successful reunification or address the root causes of harm as a way to prevent harm.