<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=40KpdI_1H2HWZa800" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=40KpdI_1H2HWZa800" width="1200" height="600" >SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – State lawmakers and advocates are determined to pass a comprehensive bill during veto session to improve housing and support services for people returning home from prison.Roughly 15,000 people leave Illinois prisons each year, but the vast majority of those people are unable to find stable housing. The Home for Good plan calls for rental subsidies and wraparound services for returning residents.“Every time one person returns to prison, it costs taxpayers and society $200,000,” said Illinois Justice Project Director Ahmadou Dramé. “We spend $2.6 billion running our state’s prison system, and we have a ton of people there who are there because we didn’t set them up to succeed when they were released the first time, or the second time, or the third time, or however many times.” The legislation could also create a Home For Good institute to provide training and technical assistance to community-based organizations helping with reentry housing. “70% of people going into IDOC, before they go in, they either have unstable housing or they’re homeless,” said Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). “You can only imagine how it is when they come out.”This plan relies on roughly $35 million that currently exists in the Illinois R3 fund through adult-use cannabis sales. Advocates hoped to receive $50 million in the Fiscal Year 2027 budget to help launch the program, but an appropriations bill was not filed in time.Republicans noted the Illinois Housing Development Authority and Illinois Department of Human Services opposed the bill due to its fiscal impact.“We think of our program as an investment in reducing overall spending in state government if we could reduce the footprint and the number of people who are incarcerated in our state prison system by simply setting people up to succeed when they leave,” Dramé said.There are 18 Democratic cosponsors for the legislation in the Senate. House Bill 624 needs a committee hearing vote before it can head to the Senate floor. The measure previously received a 63-34 vote in the House. </div></body>

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – State lawmakers and advocates are determined to pass a comprehensive bill during veto session to improve housing and support services for people returning home from prison. Roughly 15,000 people leave Illinois prisons each year, but the vast majority of those people are unable to find...

Illinois Senate could pass Home for Good plan during veto session

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – State lawmakers and advocates are determined to pass a comprehensive bill during veto session to improve housing and support ser

Illinois Senate could pass Home for Good plan during veto session

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