Just Mercy

Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles on the topics, people and events that are shaping the criminal justice conversation

Mariame Kaba, a New York City-based activist and organizer, is at the center of an effort to “build up another world.”

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

The Abolitionist Law Center is a public interest law firm inspired by the struggle of political and politicized prisoners, and organized for the purpose of abolishing class and race based mass incarceration in the United States.

The Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) is a visual arts and education project that connects teaching artists and scholars to incarcerated students at Stateville Maximum Security Prison through classes, workshops, a policy think tank, and guest lectures.

The Freedom to Learn Campaign IL (FTL) formed in March 2019 in response to Danville Correctional Center’s staff removing over 200 titles from the Education Justice Project’s (EJP) library at the prison. Many of the books that were removed focused on race and identity—such as and W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. The book removal was a part of the Department of Correction’s growing practice of restricting access to reading materials in prison.

IL-CHEP began in 2016, with the following purposes: 1) to learn what kinds of higher education programming existed in Illinois, 2) to learn what challenges these programs encountered, and how programs had overcome those challenges, 3) to discuss how to advocate in a more unified and effective way for HEP in the state, and 4) to better coordinate HEP offerings in the Illinois Dept of Corrections, and 5) to establish a consistent working relationship with key administrators in the DOC.