Events
This page carries information about special events, and the John Howard Association of Illinois’ Annual Meeting.
For a schedule of visits and volunteer training sessions, please look at our Schedule of Citizens’ Visits and Response Form page.
The Association’s Annual Meeting ---
The 2007 Annual Meeting will be held at the Chicago Cultural Center on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Email James "Yaki" Sayles (yaki@john-howard.org), to receive an invitation and further details as they become available, and for information on sponsorship opportunities. To find out more about the 2007 Annual Meeting, please click here. We hope you can attend.
The John Howard Association will host a new, prisoner art exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center from July 11 - September 28, 2008 -- Lights from Within: Art from Illinois Prisons is currently in the development and planning stages. The exhibit will offer people a chance to view artwork created by a sample of the 45,000+ men, women and children incarcerated in Illinois today. To receive the Call for Entries as soon as available, email tpurdiman@john-howard.org.
On September 14, 2006 our Annual Meeting broke previous attendance records when it brought together a diverse assembly of more than 350 friends, county and state corrections professionals, attorneys from law firms and the public defender offices, judges, former inmates and the families of inmates, community advocates and state and county legislators – each wanting to help make the sentencing and corrections side of our justice system better. We were honored to hear keynote speaker Attorney Dan Webb, to commemorate Presiding Judge Paul Biebel’s support for sentencing programs and limits on crowding at the Cook County Jail and to recognize Representative Annazette Collins tireless advocacy for Illinois youth.
Our Annual Meeting also featured our first-ever prisoner art show, assembled by Board Members Aviva Futorian and Frank Nicholas. This powerful display of inmate talent and the human need to communicate is memorialized in the specially-prepared catalogue, “Lights From Within: Art From Illinois Prisons,” which, for anyone who missed the opportunity at the Annual Meeting, is available for purchase on our publications page.
Thanks to our SPONSORS in 2006!
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