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Vigil For True Justice: More Effective and Efficient Operations of Prisons
  1. Signatures
    147 out of 5,000
    Petitioning
    1. Vigil For True Justice (Profiteers of Mass Incarceration)
  2. Created By
    James Chapman
    Chicago, IL
About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

While most states are currently reducing their prison populations, Illinois has added more than 4,000 inmates to its prisons. The problem of prison overcrowding is rooted in decades of tough on crime legislation, the war on drugs, and harsh sentencing practices. These policies have drained Illinois of vital resources, while having only a minimal effect on the crime rate. Today IDOC is one of the state's largest agencies, with a $1 billion budget.

 

Incarcerated persons are often left isolated, some 23-hours a day, some suffer from mental illness, families cannot afford to offer support or aid, many are not afforded adequate education, re-entry programs fall flat or short and so many never given the opportunity or chance to live up to their full potential and to become true assets to society.  

 

The Vigil for True Justice is a BI-ANNUAL, month-long vigil during the months of APRIL and NOVEMBER where inmates, family members, tax payers, citizens, victims’ family members and friends Stand STILL in a moratorium on spending for items that exploit mass incarceration such as Phone Calls by Consolidated and Vending Companies such as Ace Vending.

The Vigil is every year for the months of April and November. By signing the petition, we ask that you PLEDGE participation to abstain from phone use and vending machine purchases at all prison-related vendors.

Administrators of the Vigil will subsequently support legislation for goals such as:

Better allocation of funds for effective family services and Restorative Justice for Victims' Families
Meritorious Good Time - HB 3899
Alternative Sentencing
Electronic Home Monitoring
Step Down Programs for Re-Entry
Job Placement Programs for Ex-Offenders
Travel and Phone relief for Family Members                                                                  More reasonable communication pricing                                                                Adequate in-house diet to diminish health concerns.

Please let us all join together and send a message that we will not continue to fund a broken system. We want incarceration to work as intended by the constitution. To promote public safety and restore useful citizenship.

PLEDGE - APRIL 1ST THROUGH APRIL 30TH

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Support Legislation for more effective and efficient operations

Greetings,

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Profiteers of Mass Incarceration.

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Support Legislation for more effective and efficient operations

While most states are currently reducing their prison populations, Illinois has added more than 4,000 inmates to its prisons. The problem of prison overcrowding is rooted in decades of tough on crime legislation, the war on drugs, and harsh sentencing practices. These policies have drained Illinois of vital resources, while having only a minimal effect on the crime rate. Today IDOC is one of the state's largest agencies, with a $1 billion budget.

Incarcerated persons are often left isolated, some 23-hours a day, some suffer from mental illness, families cannot afford to offer support or aid, many are not afforded adequate education, re-entry programs fall flat or short and so many never given the opportunity or chance to live up to their full potential and to become true assets to society.

The Vigil for True Justice is a BI-ANNUAL month-long MORATORIUM every year - APRIL and NOVEMBER where inmates, family members, tax payers, citizens, victims’ family members and friends Stand STILL in and CEASE on spending for items that exploit mass incarceration such as Phone Calls by Consolidated and Vending Companies such as Ace Vending.

We want to send a message to law-makers and to corporate profiteers. That message is: We will not continue to pay for this broken system.

The Vigil is every year during APRIL and NOVEMBER. By signing the petition, we ask that you PLEDGE participation to abstain from phone use and vending machine purchases at all prison-related vendors.

Administrators of the Vigil will subsequently support legislation for goals such as:

Better allocation of funds for effective family services and Restorative Justice for Victims' Families
Meritorious Good Time - HB 3899
Alternative Sentencing
Electronic Home Monitoring
Step Down Programs for Re-Entry
Job Placement Programs for Ex-Offenders
Travel and Phone relief for Family Members
More reasonable communication pricing

Please let us all join together and send a message that we will not continue to fund a broken system. We want incarceration to work as intended by the constitution. To promote public safety and restore useful citizenship.

PLEDGE - APRIL 1ST THROUGH APRIL 30TH
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