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	Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
		Illinois has been at the center of the reexamination of the death penalty since the exoneration of over a dozen death row inmates led to the exposure of shocking and systemic flaws in its criminal justice system.
		The purpose of this report, prepared by the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, is to review the course of the death penalty in Illinois in the year since the Governor Ryan granted pardons to four innocent death row inmates and commuted the sentences of all other condemned inmates in Illinois.
		Illinois legislators, after failing to ratify a single reform in the 2002 legislative session, took up during the Spring 2003 session the 85 reforms to the capital punishment and criminal justice system proposed by the Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment.
	www.icadp.org /page231.html (8951 words)

	Justice, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Justice is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
		The main gate of Resurrection Cemetery on Archer Avenue in Justice.
		There were 4,402 households out of which 39.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 15.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.5% were non-families.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justice,_Illinois (415 words)

	The Tax Justice Digest: Illinois Archives
		The reforms proposed in Illinois, and just recently approved by a Senate committee, would result in a net tax increase of about $3.8 billion to be used to fund education, early childhood programs, pensions, health care, and construction projects.
		The governors of Illinois and Pennsylvania are each seeking to follow the feds’ lead and stimulate their economy with tax breaks.
		Despite Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich coming before the Illinois House in a rare all-day hearing to promote his plan for implementing a gross receipts tax (GRT) his proposal was unanimously defeated by the Illinois House in a 107-0 vote.
	www.ctj.org /taxjusticedigest/state-tax-issues/illinois (2296 words)

	Justice Policy Institute, Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SPRINGFIELD, IL -- Illinois is one of five states that have become models for other states trying to reduce inefficient and ineffective juvenile justice systems, according to a new study released today by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI).
		JPI cited Redeploy Illinois as example of the kind of program other states should embrace as a way to reduce prison costs and prevent young offenders from falling into futures dominated by criminal behavior and incarceration.
		Four Redeploy Illinois pilot sites are in operation in Macon County, Peoria County, St. Clair County and in the 2nd Judicial Circuit, which covers 12 counties in southeastern Illinois.
	www.justicepolicy.org /releases/press060323-redeployIll.htm (582 words)

	ATRA :: Justice for Sale: The Judges of Madison County
		The Illinois Civil Justice League is a coalition of Illinois citizens, small and large businesses, associations, professional societies, not-for-profit organizations and local governments that have joined together to work for fairness in the Illinois civil justice system.
		It is important to maintain public awareness of the problems of lawsuit abuse and thus the League will continue to serve as a champion for a fair civil justice system in the news media, through public speeches, and in the halls of government as necessary.
		Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch (I-LAW) is a grassroots watchdog group of concerned citizens, community leaders, small business people and non-profit organizations dedicated to educating the public about the widespread costs of lawsuit abuse.
	www.atra.org /reports/IL_justice (718 words)

	Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois' Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court
		In the mid-1980s, Illinois embarked on an experiment in juvenile justice policy that was intended to reduce the sale and consumption of illegal drugs.
		Under Illinois law, a prosecutor may move a juvenile case into the adult court by petitioning the court for a transfer hearing (discretionary) or by charging a juvenile with key felonies to trigger a transfer hearing (presumptive).
		But under Illinois law, the legislature may also mandate than any juvenile of a certain age who commits a particular offense will be automatically excluded (automatic transfer or exclusion) from the juvenile court and must be prosecuted in adult criminal court.
	www.buildingblocksforyouth.org /illinois/illinois.html (4016 words)

	Documents for Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Documents for Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
		Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
		The four documents available here are transcriptions of original source documents referenced in the book Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens by Kenneth A. Manaster, published by the University of Chicago Press.
	press-pubs.uchicago.edu /manaster (115 words)

	Illinois EPA - Environmental Justice
		The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA or Agency) is committed to protecting the health of the citizens of Illinois and its environment, and to promoting environmental equity in the administration of its programs to the extent it may do so legally and practicably.
		The Illinois EPA supports the objectives of achieving environmental equity for all of the citizens of Illinois.
		Environmental justice is the protection of the health of the people of Illinois and its environment, equity in the administration of the State's environmental programs, and the provision of adequate opportunities for meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
	www.epa.state.il.us /environmental-justice (238 words)

	Scott's Justice- Illinois Issues, December, 1980
		Politics and law in Illinois are so incestuously entwined that irony came in spades throughout the trial of Bill Scott.
		In the letter to the Department of Justice, Scott also stated that he was the head of a Chicago travel agency and the primary salesman until February of 1975 and was therefore entitled to reduced air fair privileges that would have allowed him to do much of his traveling at a discount rate.
		It was an end in which greed overcame principle, in which another Illinois official snuffed out the light of his own brilliant career because he could not abide by the oh-so-stringent demands of public servitude.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1980/ii801204.html (4305 words)

	Conscious Choice: What is “Restorative Justice”?
		Several influential groups (The Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy; Developing Justice Coalition; Chicago Metropolis 2020; The Chicago Council of Lawyers; Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice; and the CLEAR Initiative, to name a few) are starting to acknowledge and address the crushing problems in the Illinois criminal justice system.
		According to the 2006 Crime and Justice Index released by Metropolis 2020, a civic research and policy group, the State of Illinois, to include counties and municipalities, spends approximately $7 billion annually on the criminal justice system.
		Illinois is currently the only state in the nation attempting rewrite its criminal code with the CLEAR initiative (Criminal Law Edit, Align and Reform).
	consciouschoice.com /2007/05/restorejustice0705.html (1850 words)

	IBARJI
		This practice recognizes that justice is not served until the offender is held accountable by repaying the victim in order to help repair the harm or loss experienced by the victim.
		Illinois has passed legislation listing rights for victims of violent crime and several national victim rights organizations promote the importance of providing support and resources to victims.
		As the BARJ movement in Illinois and across the U.S. gained momentum, a diverse group of approximately 30 statewide juvenile justice practitioners and community organization members met in Bloomington in November 2002 to develop a strategy to further support statewide implementation of restorative justice.
	www.ibarji.org /history.html (1306 words)

	Justice Illinois Real Estate
		The Village of Justice is located in Southwestern Cook County, Illinois, encompasses 5 square miles with a population of 12,000, is close to Chicago's Midway Airport and with easy access to I-55,US Rte.
		With so many benefits to this small neighborhood is it any wonder that it is Justice is a growing community with its roots firmly planted in the history of the area, but who is not scared to hold onto the charm and quaintness of the region.
		Justice is a forward thinking community, and is making sure that it keeps up with its bigger counterparts.
	www1.relocate-america.com /states/il/cities/justice.htm (521 words)

	A Portrait of Prisoner Reentry in Illinois
		This report describes the process of prisoner reentry by examining the policy context surrounding reentry in Illinois, the characteristics of Illinois' returning inmates, the geographic distribution of returning prisoners, and the social and economic climates of the communities that are home to the highest concentrations of returning prisoners.
		The increase in the Illinois prison population can be attributed to two main factors: increased admissions to prison and increased lengths of stay for incarcerated offenders.
		Illinois' release patterns reflect these admissions and population trends (figure 1): In 2001, 30,068 men and women were released from Illinois prisons
	www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=410662 (3848 words)

	About The ICJL
		The League, with its members, was the principle author and proponent of major tort liability reform in the Illinois General Assembly in 1995.
		Among ICJL members are the Illinois State Medical Society, with more than 16,000 physician members; the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, with more than 1,200 family practice doctors; the Illinois Engineering Council and the Structural Engineers Association, each with more than 1,000 professional members.
		Ed Murnane was named President of the Illinois Civil Justice League early in 1993 after serving for four years in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, including three years as the Midwest Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
	www.icjl.org /subhead_about.htm (1278 words)

	Illinois Juvenile Justice Department (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philosophically, the DYS in Missouri is focused on the rehabilitation of youth while the IDOC is focused on punishment.
		Illinois youths in IDOC are rarely allowed in communities.
		Creating the Department of Juvenile Justice will move Illinois toward a cost-effective and comprehensive continuum of care for juvenile offenders that is appropriate, responsive, and effective in promoting public safety.
	www.cairogate.com /news/articles/2005/Illinois_juvenile_prisons.html (903 words)

	Media Talking Points for Equal Justice Project:
		Comprehensive studies in Illinois and throughout the country have shown that the persistent gaps in access to our justice system can only be solved by a multi-tiered and coordinated approach.
		This principle was endorsed by the Illinois Equal Justice Project and adopted by the State of Illinois when the Illinois Equal Justice Act was signed into law in 1999.
		The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation is a non-profit organization created pursuant to the Act to distribute funds statewide for increased access to legal information and assistance in Illinois in accordance with the Act.
	www.illinoisbar.org /News/equaljusticebackground.html (689 words)

	Equal Justice Magazine - State of Affairs
		With budget cuts taking their toll and no funding reprieve on the horizon, Illinois equal justice advocates decided it was time to mobilize the state’s big hitters in the struggle for more legal aid resources.
		“Access to the justice system is a basic right that should be afforded to everyone, regardless of their income or whether they live in an urban or rural area,” says former U.S. Senator Paul Simon (D-IL), who earned national recognition for his bow ties and straight talk in a 1988 bid for the White House.
		The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation—the entity that doles out money to legal aid groups—launched the Equal Justice Illinois Campaign with a goal of doubling the annual state appropriation for legal services (which currently stands at $490,000).
	www.ejm.lsc.gov /EJMIssue5/stateofaffairs.htm (1090 words)

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		The centerpiece of the juvenile justice legislation is Redeploy Illinois.
		Redeploy Illinois is a strategy to shift fiscal incentives to enable counties to use dollars currently spent on corrections beds to build local continuums of care for youth in the juvenile justice system.
		In addition, Illinois is moving ahead with efforts to reduce overrepresentation of minorities in the justice system by using the Burns Institute method in four communities in Illinois.
	www.juvenilecoalition.org /news/illinois_passes_jj_legi.htm (331 words)

	Illinois Deserves the Truth
		As we in Illinois saw with the Marion VA hospital, a bad doctor, Jose Veizaga-Mendez, was allowed to jump states, be hired and contribute to the deaths of at least 13 patients.
		Illinois is one of the few states to have a website devoted to providing this important information.
		Illinois took 170 “serious disciplinary actions” against the state’s 41,581 doctors in 2007, and Illinois ranked 12th highest among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the average disciplinary action rate per 1,000 doctors from 2005 through 2007.
	illinoisdeservesthetruth.typepad.com (4077 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU of Illinois Sues Justice Department and Homeland Security Officials Over Failure ...
		The lawsuit, filed in federal district court against the Justice Department and the new Department of Homeland Security, seeks enforcement of the federal Freedom of Information Act, which compels government officials to disclose certain records to the public.
		The reluctance of the Bush Administration to release this data undermines the public announcement of anti-racial profiling guidelines in late June by the Department of Justice, the ACLU said.
		The ACLU of Illinois' complaint seeks information about any official policies adopted regarding the collection of data ordered by the President, any training materials related to how officers should collect such information, the compilation of data already collected by the agencies and any analyses of the data.
	www.aclu.org /racialjustice/racialprofiling/15812prs20030813.html (656 words)

	Illinois Deserves the Truth: Posts from October 2007
		Illinois used to have a narrow and antiquated view of a value of a person’s life.
		The Illinois public suffered a devastating loss in 2005 when politicians limited the power of local juries by capping patients’ compensation in medical malpractice cases.
		Illinois Deserves the Truth invites comment to further the debate on issues addressed, but we reserve the right to deny or remove any post or comment.
	illinoisdeservesthetruth.typepad.com /home/2007/10/index.html (1855 words)

	Illinois Civil Justice League
		The study details the level of civil litigation in all 102 Illinois counties during the past 10 years and dramatically shows the high level of civil litigation in selected jurisdictions, including Madison and Cook Counties.
		A new investigation into one of the most active asbestos litigation firms in Illinois, Simmons Cooper of Madison County, and their attempt to move their cases to new, "friendlier" venues in Delaware.
		One of the immediate impacts of the new law was a sharp reduction in the number of civil lawsuits in Illinois following enactment of the law by Governor Jim Edgar, a reduction that saved Illinois taxpayers and consumers millions of dollars.
	www.legalreforminthenews.com /partners/Illinois_CJL/ICJL_Home.html (820 words)

	JJustice.org - home
		The JJI is a response to the significant changes in the juvenile justice system in Illinois and across the country.
		The Juvenile Justice Initiative works to inform and educate policy makers, the media, and the general public about the alarming increase in number of juveniles held in custody, about the disparate number of minority youth in custody, and about the lack of adequate community based alternatives to detention.
		Our initiatives seek to create a constituency for youth in the justice system with an emphasis on promoting intervention strategies, ensuring fairness for youth in the justice system, and building community resources for comprehensive continuums of services and sanctions to reduce reliance on confinement.
	www.jjustice.org (1503 words)

	Loyola University Chicago- Part-Time Instructors
		His extensive experience in the field of criminal justice includes having taught at Loyola University, Chicago, and the University of Illinois Chicago, and he was a juvenile justice specialist with the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission/Juvenile Justice Commission.
		He is a doctoral candidate (2008) in criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has a master's degree in that field, and also has a B.A. in psychology from Northern Illinois University.
		He is the author of numerous publications on the subjects of juvenile justice, the IIJIS project, computerized access to criminal history records, and topics relating to trends in law enforcement.
	www.luc.edu /criminaljustice/instructors.shtml (983 words)

	Juvenile Defense in Illinois Well Below National Standards , NewsCenter, Northwestern University
		CHICAGO --- Children charged with delinquent offenses in Illinois usually are assigned a defense attorney only right before, or sometimes not even until, the conclusion of their first appearance before a judge, according to a new report that concludes that representation of juveniles in Illinois falls well short of national standards.
		The assessment is an integral part of a larger juvenile justice initiative in Illinois that is working to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in the system, to increase community-based services for youth and to ensure that young people are under juvenile court jurisdiction when appropriate.
		The Illinois Defender Assessment Project, funded by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is part of Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice, an effort to create successful and replicable models of juvenile justice reform through targeted investments in key states.
	www.northwestern.edu /newscenter/stories/2007/10/juvenile.html (1242 words)

	Center for Justice & Democracy - Illinois
		The Center for Justice and Democracy’s Illinois office opened in early 2005 to raise public awareness about and preserve access to Illinois’ civil justice system.
		Working in close coordination with CJandD’s national office, CJandD Illinois engages in activities such as the local release of research and reports, media work, coalition building, and changing the nature of the public debate over “tort reform.” CJandD Illinois is staffed by Field Organizer Mark Fraley.
		Contact us to inquire about joining Illinois Patients for Justice, a network of patients advocating patient safety and protection of the civil justice system.
	www.centerjd.org /Illinois.htm (588 words)

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