{"id":9638,"date":"2021-01-13T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:00:34","slug":"illinois-hb3653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2021\/01\/13\/illinois-hb3653\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois legislature passes bill ending prison gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIllinois&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3653&#038;GAID=15&#038;DocTypeID=HB&#038;LegId=120371&#038;SessionID=108&#038;GA=101\">HB 3653<\/a>, a major criminal justice reform package, contains provisions ending prison gerrymandering for state legislative districts. The final language passed both the Senate and House today.<\/p>\n<p>If signed by Governor Pritzker, it will make Illinois <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2020\/12\/18\/building-momentum\/\">the 10th state to end prison gerrymandering<\/a>. This reform represents a culmination of a decade-long effort, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changeil.org\/\">CHANGE Illinois<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedcongress.org\/\">United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations<\/a> tirelessly pushing for reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois is poised to become the 10th state to end prison gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}