SALAM Illinois has been founded to focus on providing support and legal advocacy for prisoners who fall under the Project SALAM description (above) and are being held in the U.S. federal penitentiaries (often in Communication Management Units (CMUs)) at Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN. See, for instance, A Case in Point: The Holy Land Foundation Case.
The goals of SALAM Illinois in its initial phase are:
* to break the silence surrounding the dozens of targeted Muslim men who have ended up being held in the federal prisons at Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN, including in the the Communication Management Units (CMUs)
* to develop a network of supporting organizations to support SALAM Illinois
* to encourage concerned individuals to learn about individual prisoners supported by SALAM Illinois, and to communicate with those prisoners directly
* to cooperate in holding public education events to increase public awareness of the specific cases of the aforementioned Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN, inmates, specifically, and the ongoing persecution of Muslim men in the United States, in general
* to lay the foundation for an expanded program of support and legal advocacy for aforementioned Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN, inmates
* to develop a network of supporting organizations to support SALAM Illinois
* to encourage concerned individuals to learn about individual prisoners supported by SALAM Illinois, and to communicate with those prisoners directly
* to cooperate in holding public education events to increase public awareness of the specific cases of the aforementioned Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN, inmates, specifically, and the ongoing persecution of Muslim men in the United States, in general
* to lay the foundation for an expanded program of support and legal advocacy for aforementioned Marion, IL, and Terre Haute, IN, inmates
