Chicago has 185 shelter beds. New York has 3,000. Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, has 336 beds. While Chicago ...

Boyd added times survivor spends at emergency shelters have increased from 45 days to more than 60 days. Boyd said the ...

The bi-partisan bill to reform the Prison Review Board also makes information more accessible to victims and victims’ ...

In 2024, the Mayor’s Office of Domestic and Community Violence Prevention Task Force split into four teams, including a group ...

NewsChannel 20 and Fox Illinois have new details about the tragic death of a Sangamon County woman beaten to death ...

The Cook County suburb of Richton Park amended the ordinance that forced Diamond Jones out of her rental home, and housing ...

New York, California, Illinois and Oklahoma have already ... please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline for confidential support 24/7/365. The number is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).

If Kemp signs the bill, Georgia would join Oklahoma, Illinois, New York and California ... up with society’s modern understanding of domestic violence dynamics.” Under Georgia’s bill ...

These victims and others who have lost their lives to domestic violence deserve our attention as this problem grows. Of course, this isn’t just a Chicago problem. The Illinois Coalition Against ...

Illinois last year passed a law expanding ... shortens sentences for crimes driven by domestic violence. A few have gone home. But a bill failed this year that could have provided some sentencing ...

New York, California, Illinois and Oklahoma have already passed laws intended ... a University of Maryland law professor who studies the criminalization of domestic violence. Goodmark hopes efforts ...