Update on Commissary Situation and Launch of JHA Online Survey

As of February 2022, IDOC is many months into a commissary disruption that has impacted the supply of items that incarcerated people rely on being able to purchase through commissary. The causes and effects of the commissary disruption are detailed more fully in JHA’s December 2021 Update on Commissary Issues. Read our update here.   

JHA is using this online survey to collect up-to-date information on the commissary situation from people with knowledge of current, on-the-ground experience in Illinois prisons. We would appreciate your participation in this voluntary and anonymous survey if you have information to share with us that you have learned through communication with a loved one, from your own recent experience, or some other close connection to the situation. JHA will share only de-identified information publicly and will use the information shared with us in our advocacy and public reporting on an ongoing basis. This survey will remain open through March 31st.