Legislative Impact
Restore Justice engages with policy-makers, educating them with positive solutions, while advocating for children and young adults who are serving extreme sentences. We promote healing, hope, and humanity for people who are incarcerated and their loved ones.
OUR FOCUS
We write and support Illinois policies that will replace outdated, draconian laws of past eras with commonsense policies that will allow families and communities to heal.
We focus our legislative efforts on sentencing policy, prison conditions and practices, and pathways to release. The laws we have shepherded have been designed to create ways for people to come home and to bring more people home, and to make sure people who are incarcerated and their families are treated humanely.
Our Impact
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Join our Advocacy Team
The Advocacy Team is a group of passionate people who meet regularly while the Illinois General Assembly is in session and take action on our policy priorities. Team members also have the opportunity to learn more about how to develop relationships with legislators, the legislative process, and the most effective ways to build support for issues that matter in Springfield.
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Restore Justice Illinois (RJI) is a 501 (c) 4 organization that utilizes its resources to engage in electoral work to support candidates with our shared values running for office in Illinois. Join our Political Action Team today to help elect candidates who will support and protect criminal legal system reform.
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