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Our Mission
Our Mission
Build Communities Not Prisons is dedicated to building awareness around and giving voice to the prison conditions people incarcerated in Illinois are facing; developing a grassroots strategy to stop the investment of public funds into incarceration and to redirect these funds to resourcing communities; and to create pathways for release for people incarcerated in Illinois prisons. ​​​
Our Values
We believe in:
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Centering the voices, experiences, and leadership of currently and formerly incarcerated people.
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Building relationships of reciprocity and accountability.
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Refusing carceral logics, valuing each person's humanity.
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Embracing intersectionality and grassroots organizing.
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Our Partners
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