Like their comrades in New York, the AAACC elders knew the Illinois version of the "Million Dollar Blocks" story the second they arrived on the housing blocks in Stateville.
The people that AAACC engaged behind the walls rarely "maxed out" their full sentences; they were most often released with the diffused supervision of parole or probation.
Likewise, mass criminalization (often waged on the very peoples who were displaced just decades before) did not merely disrupt communities; it left life-threatening gashes--gashes that MWIPM, in partnership with AAACC, was founded to heal.