NAMI Illinois NAMI Illinois is proud to have partnered with the Illinois Department of Corrections. Last year NAMI Illinois trained and certified 150 Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) staff that then trained the entire DOC staff of over 11,500 in the NAMI Illinois mental illness awareness curriculum. Recently representatives from NAMI Illinois toured the Elgin Treatment Center, a new 44-bed facility that will offer hospital level care to state prisoners with serious mental illness. Dr. Melvin Hinton, Chief of Mental Health and Addiction Services for IDOC, said that this facility and a 422-bed residential treatment center in Joliet "are part [...]
“Nearly all of those blocked in Kansas were eligible U.S. citizens who simply lacked ready access to passports, birth certificates and other documents, as at least 5 percent of Americans do. Disproportionately, those lacking such documents are minorities and younger voters”
Opinion | The man who may disenfranchise millions Kris Kobach aims to do to America what he did to Kansas. More info @ http://ift.tt/2tRztsj Automated post from LWV of the Elgin Area - http://ift.tt/2dKZy4V July 31, 2017 at 11:54AM
Powerful and important perspective on justice on America.
PBS Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, shares his #BriefbutSpectacular take on justice in America. (From PBS NewsHour) More info @ http://ift.tt/2oKAEKt Automated post from LWV of the Elgin Area - http://ift.tt/2dKZy4V July 30, 2017 at 11:24AM
Disturbing, inspiring and instructive. Know your rights.
AJ+ This middle school teacher was detained by Border Patrol – and not while crossing a border. More info @ http://ift.tt/2h1FeC0 Automated post from LWV of the Elgin Area - http://ift.tt/2dKZy4V July 27, 2017 at 12:17PM