Affiliated Organizations/Link Tree

See below for affiliated organizations related to prison education, re-entry, civic engagement, restorative justice, and arts-related advocacy and healing.  Several of these organizations offer opportunities for internships, course instruction, and other forms of prison education advocacy. 

• Challenge II Change 
• Change Agents Podcast  
• Chicago Votes  
• Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights 
• Chicago Torture Justice Center 
• Coalition to End Permanent Punishment 
• DePaul Students Against Incarceration 

• On Instagram at saidepaul 
• “Breaking Down Re-Entry Barriers to Higher Education” (video produced by the Spring 2023 News Documentary course students at DePaul University for WTTW's Firsthand: Life After Prison initiative.) 
• Community Fest Guide via Richardson Library  
• “Ban the Box” campaign 
• Book Club at Cook County jail
  
• Book drives
  
• Guest speakers and other programming
  

• Giving Others Dreams  
• Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (IL-CHEP) 
• Freedom-to-Learn Campaign 
• Illinois Prison Project 
  
• Inside-Out on Instagram ​
  
• Kolbe House Jail Ministry 
  
• Love and Protect Chicago 
  
• Parole Illinois 
  
• Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation 
  
• Prison + Neighborhoods Arts/Education Project 
  
• Restore Justice Illinois 
  
• Saint Leonard’s Ministries 
  
• Walls Turned Sideways Chicago 
  
• Women’s Justice Institute