The Final 5 Campaign

Dedicated to the abolition of the final 5 youth prisons in Illinois.

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

It’s such a lie to call this plan “community-based, rehabilitative, and restorative”

LDC IS A NEW YOUTH PRISON

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

I'm glad to see our Department of Juvenile Justice moving forward with its new community-based, rehabilitative, and restorative model by bringing a new Illinois Youth Center to Lincoln, Illinois. Learn more here: https://t.co/RJvNcikpKb

[Collaborative for Community Wellness @ccwchicago]

📣 Calling all young people 📣

The #TreatmentNotTrauma team has been hard at working creating a youth summit focused on what mental health should look like in our city. Mark your calendars for October 15th!

RSVP at https://t.co/dCjTGvF9wN! Got some Qs? Send us a DM!

[SoapBox Productions & Organizing @SoapBoxPO]

#tbt 7/26: @Final5Campaign took over the Thompson Center demanding @GovPritzker stop building a new youth prison in Lincoln, IL!

S/O @AFSCpeace for leading & @BPNCchicago @Circles_Ciphers for throwing down!

📺in full: https://t.co/uQSym1pvsB

#FreeTheYouth #FreeThemAll #StopLDC

[SoapBox Productions & Organizing @SoapBoxPO]

September newsletter dropped today!

Included:
🔸#WeAreMore @ILPrisonProject updates
🔸New @BourbonnBrwnTwn drop
🔸@Final5Campaign video & site page
🔸& more!

Tap in: https://t.co/DGd2c9M8K9

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

The only way forward is to close the youth prisons, the JTDC, and all other youth detention facilities, and invest in communities that themselves are deprived of and isolated from resources.

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

“Isolating and deprivational” should be the motto for all youth jails and prisons, and those words only scratch the surface (thread ⬇️):

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

A committee found that the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center is "isolating and deprivational," rather than rehabilitative. Most kids and teens there spend at least 13 hours a day locked in small cells. https://t.co/3xS7kncA83

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

Anything that subjects youth to isolation and deprivation needs to end, period. Moving youth around to new, smaller facilities that still operate on confinement and punishment is just an attempt to rebrand youth incarceration so adults feel better about it.

[GoodKidsMadCity @GKMC18]

This is why the work of @Final5Campaign is so important because children experience torture & isolation while incarcerated too!
#AbolishPrison
#AbolishTheJTDC

[#BoeingArmsGenocide @bootboeing]

Next, Zhyier from @AFSCpeace + the @Final5Campaign!

"Endless cycles of cash payouts to corporations & developers— developers building new prisons with the intention of FILLING them w/ our youth— building them w/ our money… is this what parents are funding when they pay taxes?"

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

If you build so many schools, libraries, affordable housing complexes- then it sounds like you don’t need the to also build a new youth prison to keep your business going. We’ll see you at 2pm @CordoganClark1

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

Happening now! Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

They said they can’t get in touch with John Cordogan and John Clark… oh but all of sudden he’ll be here at 2pm? 🤔

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

“We feel threatened that you’re building cages to put children in. That’s a horrible business, and we want you to feel uncomfortable.”

[The Final 5 Campaign @Final5Campaign]

A letter from incarcerated youth