Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois | About

WHAT WE DO

We use our legal access and our privilege as people on the outside to further the prison abolition movement and support people on the inside. We work in three project areas:

LEGAL SERVICES

We provide free, zealous, life-affirming, and gender-affirming holistic criminal legal services to low-income and street based transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system.

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS & TRAININGS

We create and distribute information, resources, and training curriculum for lawyers and social service providers who work with people targeted by the criminal legal system.

SUPPORT COMMUNITY SURVIVAL AND ORGANIZING ON THE INSIDE

We use our attorney access and attorney-client relationships on the inside to listen to the wisdom of and respond to the needs of those locked up. We help distribute resources and connect people to their peers, friends, family, allies, advocates, and the larger prison abolition movement.

Our project is founded on the recognition of the fundamental failures of the U.S. legal system.

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WHAT WE DO

We create and distribute information, resources, and training curriculum for lawyers and social service providers who work with people targeted by the criminal legal system.

We use our attorney access and attorney-client relationships on the inside to listen to the wisdom of and respond to the needs of those locked up. We help distribute resources and connect people to their peers, friends, family, allies, advocates, and the larger prison abolition movement.