Joint Response to Gov. Pritzker's Announcement on Juvenile Justice Reform

The ACLU of Illinois, the Children and Family Justice Center at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the Illinois Justice Project, and the John Howard Association of Illinois issued the following statement in response to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s announcement regarding the transformation of the state’s youth prisons to smaller, regional residential centers.

We commend Gov. Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Stratton and IDJJ Director Mueller on this important reform of the juvenile justice system in Illinois. They recognize that a prison cell is the last place a young person should be forced to live.