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Report: The Impact of the Trump Administration's Federal Criminal Justice Initiatives on LGBTQ People & Communities and Opportunities for Local Resistance:: Lambda Legal - May 2018
This report offers an overview of the wide-ranging impacts of the Trump Administration’s federal criminal justice initiatives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and communities, with a particular focus on impacts on LGBTQ people of color and immigrants. 
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Articles: Atheists Inmates In Their Own Words
Patheos by Godless Mom
This is a series on what it’s like to be an atheist in prison. To read other parts in the series, click here.  ... This series, for the most part, will not be about their crimes. I’m interested in painting a picture of what life is like for nonbelievers in the joint.
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Article/Podcast: IL Inmates Hope to get into this Prison : WBEZ by Miles Bryan
In Illinois’ Department of Corrections, there’s a prison so attractive that inmates write essays to get in. It’s only housing about 220 prisoners, but more than 1,500 have applied to get in. At the Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center, inmates are free to walk where they please, take art classes, and even garden.
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Video/Book : Locking up our own and a path to criminal justice reform - Trevor Noah / James Forman Jr.
"James Forman Jr. discusses the systemic racism that has led to the mass incarceration of black people in America's criminal justice system.
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UUPMI Calendar

Events you should know about

June 17 - Brave Space
                  10:30 am - Hinsdale Unitarian
Aug 12 - With UUANI & Youth Justice Council
                 9 & 10:45 am - Unity Temple
​​Cook County Jail Voter Registration​
Voter Rights Group is looking for volunteers to register voters at the Cook County Jail each month, on:​​​
June 10 2018 3-6 pm 
July 8 2018 3-6 pm
Click here to sign up
All volunteers must complete a Voter Registrar training. ​​

Our Mission

We equip UU's in Illinois to ​transform institutions and support people harmed by the prison industrial complex.  Read More
We need your help! We can sustain this ministry only if we have the support of people who care about our shared humanity with people in prison. Your contribution will help fund our quarter-time minister’s salary, benefits, and travel costs, plus the costs of our education offerings to congregations.

The In Prison Ministry works to create a spiritual space where all people can come as they are and be affirmed in their inherent worth and dignity, no matter their identities or past harm they may have caused. 

The outside work of the UU Prison Ministry focuses on preparing our congregations to become radically welcoming places for formerly incarcerated and convicted people. We embrace the call of Unitarian Universalism to make our congregations accepting of all people.

​The Prison Ministry will also connect UUs to local and state-level policy  initiatives that seek to build a world community of peace, liberty and justice for all.
Our Donate button will take you to the website of our fiscal sponsor, the Unitarian Church of Evanston (UCE).  Please be sure to specify that your donation is meant to support the UU Prison Ministry of Illinois, so we get credit for it.  UCE is a 501(c)3 organization, so your contributions are tax-deductible.
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