JJI 2024 AGENDA

• END DETENTION OF YOUNG CHILDREN

  • FACT SHEET on HB 2347 to RAISE AGE of DETENTION from 10 to 13

  • Poor Conditions - urgent need to swiftly remove young children from detention

  • IL Juvenile Justice Commission Report urges ending detention of young children

  • Supporters include: Illinois Probation and Court Services Assoc, Illinois Parent Teacher Assoc., Catholic Lawyers Guild Restorative Justice Project, TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities), and Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital’s Strengthening Chicago’s Youth.

• LAWYERS FOR ALL CHILDREN DURING INTERROGATION.

  • FACT SHEET ON SB 3321 - LAWYERS FOR ALL CHILDREN DURING INTERROGATION

  • Chicago SunTimes Editorial calling for lawyers for all children during interrogation

  • Supporters include Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, Restore Justice, TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities), Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice, Illinois Prison Project Action Fund, Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois, Strengthening Chicago’s Youth, Mothers Against Wrongful Convictions, Children’s Best Insterest Project, and the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy.

• RAISE MINIMUM AGE FOR JUVENILE PRISON FROM 13 TO 14 to end incarceration of elementary school age children

  • FACT SHEET ON HB 4776

  • Supporters include Cook County Justice Advisory Council, Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, Restore Justice, TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities), PTA of Illinois, Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice, Illinois Prison Project Action Fund, Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois, Strengthening Chicago’s Youth, Mothers Against Wrongful Convictions, Children’s Best Interest Project, and the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy.

  • Alternatives to incarceration for young children - The small number of 13 year olds (@6 per year) currently committed to juvenile prison in IDJJ could be more successfully prevented from reoffending if served by local providers with individual assessments and case management with evidence-based services to address individual needs, strengths and risks including:

    ·      individual, family and group counseling,

    ·      housing stabilization,

    ·      educational advocacy, and

    ·      behavioral healthcare.

• HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL CHILDREN IN ILLINOIS

  • Fact Sheet on HJR46 - Children in IL Deserve Full Human Rights

  • Supporters include the Cook County Justice Advisory Council, the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, Restore Justice, TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities), ACLU of Illinois, Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice, Illinois Prison Project Action Fund, Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois, Strengthening Chicago’s Youth, Mothers Against Wrongful Convictions, Children’s Best Interest Project, and the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy.

• EXPAND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE as alternative to juvenile court

REIMAGINE JUVENILE JUSTICE

Click here to view PowerPoint summary of JJI’s latest journey to view justice for children in Hamburg, Germany - a system that complies with international protections and rights in the Convention on the Rights of the Child