The Chicago Housing Authority’s prisoner reentry pilot program, which allows some prisoners to live in CHA housing upon their release, was the recent subject of a thoughtful article in AtlanticMedia’s Citylab. The author is BPI’s Maddy Hamlin, our newest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow,…
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BPI is pleased to welcome Madeleine Hamlin as our newest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow. Her policy work here will involve both our justice reform and housing initiatives. Maddy recently graduated from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with dual…
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In the last nine months, two reports have been issued detailing far-reaching problems within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the police oversight system. In April, the Police Accountability Task Force, in which BPI played an active role, released its unsparingly critical report….
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BPI Director of Justice Reform Adam Gross is featured in a documentary released this week by Al Jazeera English examining Chicago police accountability in the aftermath of the Laquan McDonald shooting. The Contract: Chicago’s Police Union, part of a series called…
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Testifying at Chicago City Council Committee hearings this week, BPI’s Director of Justice Reform Adam Gross urged council members to support Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ordinance, because it incorporates key reform recommendations made last spring by the Police Accountability Task Force,…
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