JJI 2025 AGENDA

• END DETENTION OF YOUNG CHILDREN

  • FACT SHEET on SB 1784 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.

• CHILD FIRST/DETENTION UTILIZATION TASK FORCE

  • FACT SHEET on SB 2156 to set up a Child First Task Force to develop recommendations to “front-load” the system with community level resources to address children in crisis/conflict with the law.

  • IL Times article on SB 2156 - A Better Way to Treat Juvenile Offenders

• LAWYERS FOR ALL CHILDREN DURING INTERROGATION.

  • FACT SHEET ON SB 1787 - 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.

• HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL CHILDREN IN ILLINOIS

  • Fact Sheet on SR81 - 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 2023 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