Policy Statements and Testimony

People who are incarcerated don’t have a say in their conditions of confinement. At JHA, we give them voice. Read our positions on prison conditions and policy reform in Illinois.

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Policy Statements
Testimony on Exiting Prisoners and State IDs
We need to Focus on Policy not Politics
Statement of the John Howard Association on the Planned Closure of the Roundhouse
Public Comment on Proposed Rule Changes by the Illinois Department of Corrections
Statement on the Illinois Budget Impasse
Statement on Illinois' Use of Solitary Confinement
JHA Testimony in Favor of Closing the Illinois Youth Center at Kewanee
Statement on Criminal Justice Reform Legislation
Statement on the Announcement of IYC-Kewanee Closure
 

2015