The Final 5 Campaign

It’s such a lie to call this plan “community-based, rehabilitative, and restorative” LDC IS A NEW YOUTH PRISON

📣 Calling all young people 📣 The #TreatmentNotTrauma team has been hard at working creating a youth summit focused on what mental health should look like in our city. Mark your calendars for October 15th! RSVP at bit.ly/tntyouth! Got some Qs? Send us a DM!

#tbt 7/26: @Final5Campaign took over the Thompson Center demanding @GovPritzker stop building a new youth prison in Lincoln, IL! S/O @AFSCpeace for leading & @BPNCchicago @Circles_Ciphers for throwing down! 📺in full: fb.watch/fILr0TBVwN/ #FreeTheYouth #FreeThemAll #StopLDC

September newsletter dropped today! Included: 🔸#WeAreMore @ILPrisonProject updates 🔸New @BourbonnBrwnTwn drop 🔸@Final5Campaign video & site page 🔸& more! Tap in: us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=ab709686234…

The only way forward is to close the youth prisons, the JTDC, and all other youth detention facilities, and invest in communities that themselves are deprived of and isolated from resources.

Anything that subjects youth to isolation and deprivation needs to end, period. Moving youth around to new, smaller facilities that still operate on confinement and punishment is just an attempt to rebrand youth incarceration so adults feel better about it.

“Isolating and deprivational” should be the motto for all youth jails and prisons, and those words only scratch the surface (thread ⬇️):

This is why the work of @Final5Campaign is so important because children experience torture & isolation while incarcerated too! #AbolishPrison #AbolishTheJTDC

Next, Zhyier from @AFSCpeace + the @Final5Campaign! "Endless cycles of cash payouts to corporations & developers— developers building new prisons with the intention of FILLING them w/ our youth— building them w/ our money… is this what parents are funding when they pay taxes?"

If you build so many schools, libraries, affordable housing complexes- then it sounds like you don’t need the to also build a new youth prison to keep your business going. We’ll see you at 2pm @CordoganClark1

They said they can’t get in touch with John Cordogan and John Clark… oh but all of sudden he’ll be here at 2pm? 🤔

Happening now! Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“We feel threatened that you’re building cages to put children in. That’s a horrible business, and we want you to feel uncomfortable.”

A letter from incarcerated youth