If you have additional questions, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page, or give us a call at 773-769-1411. Please note that we do not take criminal cases.
Prisoners Rights' Resources:
- Guide to Scheduling Legal Calls & Visits at Illinois Prisons
- Visiting IL Prisons: Hotels
- Wexford Health Contract with IDOC
- Cook County Department of Corrections Prisoner Information Handbook (Effective February 2017 - Present)
- Grievance Procedure Handout
Forms:
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Materiales Informativos:
Additional Resources:
- U.S. Social Security Administration
- Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance; information about tenants' rights
- Legal Aid Chicago; provides low-cost legal services in non-criminal matters to people living in metropolitan Chicago
- Illinois Legal Aid Online; provides free legal services to people living in Illinois
- First Defense Legal Aid; provides representation in police misconduct cases, and to individuals who have been arrested
- Chicago Legal Clinic; provides low-cost legal services
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid; provides low-cost legal services
- CARPLS; provides free legal advice
- People's Law Office; police brutality and wrongful conviction cases
- Prairie State Legal Services; provides free legal services to low-income individuals in northern Illinois
- Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation; provides low-cost legal services in civil cases to individuals in central and southern Illinois
