Reentry Guides
EJP’s Reentry Resource Program publishes three reentry guides, Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois, Mapping Your Future: National Edition, and A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation.
We also manage an Illinois reentry resource website, reentryillinois.net, with a searchable directory of reentry services across the state. We produce reentry videos and other resources.
Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois
Our 2025 Illinois reentry guide has a wealth of information on preparing for reentry while incarcerated, steps to take following release, and directories of resources. Topics include housing, employment, healthcare, finances, substance use and more. Download our guide here.
This work created by the Education Justice Project is © 2025 by the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois and is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Mapping Your Future: National Edition
—Shayla Jackson, Social Worker, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
This work created by the Education Justice Project is © 2025 by the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois and is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges & Opportunities After Deportation
We oppose the detention and deportation of anyone. This guide includes information on know your rights, legal aid and advocacy organizations so that an individual can oppose their removal from the US. The publication of this book should not be seen as an endorsement of deportation. The fact is that every year thousands of people are deported. We created this resource so that those individuals who face deportation can have the information and resources they need for a successful transition.
This work created by the Education Justice Project is © 2025 by the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois and is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Illinois Reentry Website
Reentry Guide FAQ
You can request guides via mail, phone, email, or online form. We will mail one to you free of cost. Contact us at:
Reentry Resource Program
EJP
1001 S. Wright St
Champaign, IL 61820
(217)-300-5150
reentry@educationjustice.net
Each guide costs roughly $11 to print and ship. We are able to supply a limited number of guides for free. However, if your organization is able to contribute towards our printing and mailing costs, please let us know. Invoicing you will allow us to reach even more incarcerated individuals.
Yes. You can download PDFs via the buttons above. Feel free to print copies as well. The full rights statement for each title: This work created by the Education Justice Project is © by the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois and is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. You can access all our guides as well as a searchable reentry directory at reentryillinois.net
Yes. If you are interested in a large number of guides, we will likely ask about your plans for using them and ask for your help with the cost. We are always looking to learn more about what other organizations are doing, and we want to know how our guides can best support your efforts.
We want the guide to be as helpful as possible. If you have suggestions for us, we would love to hear them. You can send feedback to our office address or email us at reentry@educationjustice.net.
Please email us at reentry@educationjustice.net.
We update Mapping Your Future Illinois annually and we update Mapping Your Future National and A New Path every two years.
Fill out this form here. We will do our best to include you both in our website and print directories where we are restricted by space.
