Dedicated to the abolition of the final 5 youth prisons in Illinois.
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The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
📣 Calling all young people 📣
The #TreatmentNotTrauma team has been hard at working creating a youth summit focused on what mental health should look like in our city. Mark your calendars for October 15th!
RSVP at bit.ly/tntyouth! Got some Qs? Send us a DM!
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
#tbt 7/26: @Final5Campaign took over the Thompson Center demanding @GovPritzker stop building a new youth prison in Lincoln, IL!
S/O @AFSCpeace for leading & @BPNCchicago @Circles_Ciphers for throwing down!
📺in full: fb.watch/fILr0TBVwN/
#FreeTheYouth #FreeThemAll #StopLDC
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
September newsletter dropped today!
Included:
🔸#WeAreMore @ILPrisonProject updates
🔸New @BourbonnBrwnTwn drop
🔸@Final5Campaign video & site page
🔸& more!
Tap in: us12.campaign-archive.com/?u…
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
This is why the work of @Final5Campaign is so important because children experience torture & isolation while incarcerated too!
#AbolishPrison
#AbolishTheJTDC
A committee found that the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center is "isolating and deprivational," rather than rehabilitative. Most kids and teens there spend at least 13 hours a day locked in small cells. bit.ly/3RaxsBI
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Next, Zhyier from @AFSCpeace + the @Final5Campaign!
"Endless cycles of cash payouts to corporations & developers— developers building new prisons with the intention of FILLING them w/ our youth— building them w/ our money… is this what parents are funding when they pay taxes?"
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
“The Lincoln Developmental Center needs to be bulldozed, not rebuilt,” student activist Gabriel Perez said. “It’s time for Pritzker to deliver on his promises and put an end to the harmful practices of youth incarceration in IL."
@Final5Campaign
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The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Activists rallied outside the Thompson Center Tuesday, urging Gov. J.B. Pritzker to shut down all Illinois Youth Centers and cancel plans for a new youth detention center in Lincoln.
bit.ly/3PDnwAy
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
We’re taking the street for 6 minutes to call on Gov Pritzker to not open a 6th youth prison in Illinois! @AFSCpeace @Final5Campaign @ChiFreeSchool
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Kyla speaks — "Building a new youth prison will not stop the violence."
"We do not want a new youth prison, Pritzker is putting money into that instead of resources for youth"
They chant: "JB Pritzker we know the truth, STOP THE PRISONS, FREE OUR YOUTH!!" @JBPritzker
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
HAPPENING NOW: Chicago youth rally in front of the Thompson center demanding @JBPritzker meet the demands of the @Final5Campaign:
Close the final 5 youth prisons, stop the construction of Lincoln youth prison, and uplift the voices of incarcerated youth. Follow in this thread.
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Outside of Thompson Center this afternoon with @AFSCpeace and @Final5Campaign to call on Gov Pritzker to close the final 5 youth prisons!
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Overly punitive responses to youth violence fail. Instead, approaches that promote youth success and keep communities safe should be implemented.
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
NEW: Despite alarmist news coverage, the data reveals youth violence has been flat or declining during the pandemic.
Get the facts from our latest brief on youth crime trends: bit.ly/3tw90kT
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Hey! Here's my semiannual work update and ask for new leads. If you know anyone looking to start a podcast who might need consulting help, have an event that needs a host, or want to bring us to your campus or org, email [email protected] or DM me. danielkisslinger.com
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
I consulted on a few podcasts that are finally out in the world including Free the Youth, a podcast from the @Final5Campaign to close the remaining youth prisons in IL. Find it where ya get your pods! thefinal5campaign.com/free-t…
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Worse fear confirmed! Especially knowing how this child will be handcuffed to the hospital bed, criminalized by the media & silenced from sharing their version of what happened, locked away in the JTDC!
#DefundCPD
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The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
Apparently in #Chicago children & teens don’t have civil rights because the Mayor can enforce martial law against youth! Wtf was the point of your fake “youth” town halls about public safety if you ain’t listening to teens & continue to criminalize us @chicagosmayor #DefundCPD 🖕🏾
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
The incarceration of youth continues as a kind of sticky net capturing vulnerable youth for offenses that aren’t even crimes for adults. Look to the work of @Final5Campaign to learn more
The Final 5 Campaign retweeted
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