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Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, in partnership with Director of Re-Entry Willette Benford, announced the launch of the City of Chicago’s Re-Entry Resource Website in honor of Second Chance Month.
New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half Colette Payne (right) speaks at the annual Mother's Day vigil, organized by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, outside Cook County Jail in Chicago. Payne and other organizers at the Women's Justice Institute released a report detailing the impact of incarceration on women and explaining how to dramatically reduce the Illinois women's prison population. Between 1980 and 2014, the number of women incarcerated across the United States increased by 700 percent. In Illinois, womenâs incarceration increa...