Established in 2017, the Chicago Torture Justice Center was born out of the movement for reparations for survivors of police torture.

Survivors and their families fought for decades for access to the trauma-informed resources and politicized healing support that the Center now offers. Today, with hundreds of survivors still incarcerated and the persistence of racialized police violence, that fight continues.

We offer clinical healing services, reentry support, case management to meet survivors where they are, and work in community to organize for new systems.

Through our monthly newsletter sent inside IDOC, we built relationships with incarcerated artists. Some of these artists went on to create the Mud Theatre Project upon coming home.