Changing the conversation from data to people is critical to challenging the idea that policing and punishment will make our communities safer. The Illinois Deaths in Custody Project relies on information from everyday people like you. You can alert us to any deaths in custody by filling out a death report form. Or you can help by contributing a eulogy for someone you know who has died in custody.

Support laws that free more people, like those that offer release to elderly people in prison, pending in Illinois as of February 2017.