<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20083"><br><br></div> <div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20082" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20081" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20080" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20079" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20078" face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, May 15, 2015 8:33 AM, Dianna Visek <divisek@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6939268589"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv6939268589"><div id="yiv6939268589yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16183"><div id="yiv6939268589yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16182" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span></span></div><div class="yiv6939268589qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv6939268589yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16181"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> <div class="yiv6939268589yqt4669977255" id="yiv6939268589yqt93275"></div></div></div><div class="yiv6939268589yqt4669977255" id="yiv6939268589yqt00560"></div></div></div></div><title>[EVENT] Realizing Reform: Fixing Illinois’ Criminal Justice System</title><style type="text/css">
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Wednesday, May 20, 2015<br clear="none">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hoogland Center For the Arts<br clear="none">
420 S. 6th St. <br clear="none">
Springfield, IL 62701</strong></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.6em;">Gov. Bruce Rauner has tasked the state’s newly formed Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform with lowering the state’s prison population by 25% come 2025. This bold directive will take equally bold solutions.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Illinois’ criminal-justice system couldn’t be riper for change.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Decades of flawed sentencing laws have swelled the ranks of nonviolent offenders in state prisons, resulting in overcrowding and cash-strapped budgets.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">At the same time, barriers to employment have reduced opportunities for ex-offenders, making it even more difficult not to fall back into crime. A testament to this problem is Illinois’ high rate of recidivism – 47% of adult inmates will go back to prison within three years.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">But now, a diverse coalition is looking at ways to fix the problem.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Please join experts from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Illinois Policy Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums and the Justice Fellowship, along with event sponsors the Charles Koch Institute and the Illinois Policy Institute, for a conversation exploring necessary solutions to a system that has been flawed for far too long.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Opening remarks:</strong><br clear="none">
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<span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><em>Policy Adviser for Public Safety, Office of Governor Bruce Rauner</em></span><br clear="none">
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<strong>Moderator:</strong><br clear="none">
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<em>Senior Fellow, Charles Koch Institute </em><br clear="none" style="text-align: center; line-height: 20.79px;">
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<strong>Panelists:</strong><br clear="none">
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Todd Belcore</span><br clear="none">
<em style="line-height: 1.6em;">Community Justice Lead Attorney, Shriver Center</em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">David Camic<br clear="none">
<em>Senior Fellow, Illinois Policy Institute</em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Greg Newburn<br clear="none">
<em><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">State Policy Director, Families Against Mandatory Minimums</span></em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Jesse Wiese<br clear="none">
<em>Policy Analyst, Justice Fellowship</em></div>
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