Blair Paddock

Michael Broadway is pictured in November 2023 during a Northwestern University graduation ceremony at Stateville Correctional Center. (Credit: Northwestern University)

Mayor Brandon Johnson tells CPS CEO Pedro Martinez to resign, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The class, based out of the school’s Evanston campus, traveled to meet with students incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, where the two groups were tasked with collaborating on a documentary.

Students from Northwestern University’s participate in the Documenting Carceral Injustice Program at Stateville Correctional Center. (Credit: Northwestern University)

Stateville had robust higher educational programs, partnering with five Chicago-area universities. After the transfers, some students have been split from their classmates and are now hundreds of miles away from each other. Those divisions and distances now make it difficult for educators to reach students.

Prisons in Illinois are currently facing a staffing crisis, according to a new report from the John Howard Association. It found understaffing greatly increases the amount of lockdowns and staff overtime and impacts the overall health, safety and well-being of staff and incarcerated people.

A group of about 40 incarcerated women read their poetry at the “Live and Alive From Inside” poetry slam, put on by the Women’s Justice Institute.

Michael Broadway is pictured in November 2023 during a Northwestern University graduation ceremony at Stateville Correctional Center. (Credit: Northwestern University)

Chicago City Council budget hearings — and frustrations — continue as Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes a $150 million property tax hike. That’s after his original $300 million recommendation was unanimously struck down by the council last week.

For months, state lawmakers, correctional workers and those incarcerated have been raising the alarm over the future of physical mail in Illinois Department of Corrections facilities.