Illinois Policy Institute

The Illinois Policy Institute (the Institute) is an independent research and advocacy organization that promotes personal freedom, pro-growth economic policy, and transparent government in Illinois. This award enables the Institute to participate, along with the Illinois affiliate of the ACLU, in a broad-based bipartisan campaign of research, public education, marketing and outreach in support of a set of key criminal justice reforms in Illinois, including front-end reforms that will reduce the misuse and overuse of local jails. The award engages an influential conservative ally in the work of reducing unnecessary incarceration in the Foundation’s home state, and serves to strengthen the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s national criminal justice reform initiative, by connecting it with local policy and practice and bringing it to ground in local realities.