Interview with Marlon Chamberlain, Fully Free Campaign manager with Heartland Alliance. What is the Fully Free Campaign? What are some of the biggest challenges someone formerly incarcerated faces when returning home? How can people directly support the Fully Free Campaign, or support its goals in other ways?
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Organization make plea for help as more Afghan refugees expected in Illinois
Illinois is preparing for hundreds of Afghan refugees to arrive in the coming weeks.
Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth visited with the Heartland Alliance Friday, an organization that so far has helped 35 individuals relocate and get settled in the area.
Sen. Duckworth issues plea to help Afghan refugees: ‘If you can help, please help’
More than 800 Afghans are expected to make Illinois their home in the coming months, said U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
Refugee Advocacy Groups Prepare For Influx Of Children And Families Fleeing From Afghanistan
Thousands of adults and kids from Afghanistan could be in Illinois soon, and U.S. immigration officials are finding some of the evacuees could be unaccompanied minors.
Chicago To Welcome More Than 500 Afghan Refugees This Fall
President Biden is eyeing billions in emergency funding to help tens of thousands Afghan allies and evacuees resettle in the U.S. More than 500 refugees are expected to arrive in Chicago this fall.
Over 500 Afghan refugees to settle in Chicago
How to help Afghan refugees: 17 aldermen sent President Biden letter welcoming Afghans
Marlon Chamberlain & Lisa Solomon
Marlon Chamberlain from Fully Free joins Lisa Soloman to talk about restorative justice.
Reality Lovett
Richard Lovett, who prefers to go by the name Reality Allah, is the Reentry Coordinator for READI Chicago and a board member of the Fully Free campaign of Heartland Alliance. After Reality was originally sentenced to serve 85 years in Illinois state prison, that sentence was later reduced due to the reversal of one of his convictions on appeal, so he ended up spending 22 years in prison. Now, he works to prevent others from following the path he did.
Listen to the Podcast co-hosted by Marlon Chamberlain, Campaign Manager of Fully Free.
Prison after prison: Advocates seek to remove barriers for the formerly incarcerated
A coalition of advocates have launched a campaign to dismantle systems they say lead to “permanent punishment” for people that have formerly been incarcerated. Marlon Chamberlain of the Fully Free Campaign knows what it’s like to be subjected to continued punishment after a prison term has been served. Asked to chaperone his son’s class on a field trip to a bowling alley, he was denied the chance when a background check turned up his decades-old conviction.
New Quad-Cities group wants to remove barriers faced by the previously incarcerated
An Illinois human rights advocacy group whose goal is to end “permanent punishments” for formerly incarcerated people in Illinois announced Tuesday they plan to launch a chapter in the Quad-Cities. The Fully Free Campaign seeks to remove hundreds of legal barriers to housing, education, and economic opportunity in Illinois for people who are returning to society after serving prison and jail sentences.