nonprofit criminal-legal-system legal-aid organization
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
Industry Legal
A Chicago nonprofit legal-aid organization serving people and communities affected by the criminal legal system. It scores this way because holistic legal services, social support, and advocacy reduce legal barriers for low-income people, while the public governance record remains ordinary nonprofit rather than client controlled.
Why this matters: Cabrini Green Legal Aid adds criminal-legal-system and reentry-oriented legal-service coverage to the Illinois map.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
Final Score
61* A - Good
A* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
Small business context
This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.
Applied cap: No structure cap
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Extraction8/10
- Ownership7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims7
- Direct axis claims7
- Coverage7/12
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid presents itself as a nonprofit legal-aid organization rooted in community legal needs. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid says it serves low-income individuals affected by the criminal legal system and aims to remove barriers to equity. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid provides legal services, social support services, and advocacy for people and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice. Linked evidence
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Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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2 / 3 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid explicitly challenges criminalization of poverty and racial inequity through legal services and advocacy. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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3 / 3 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid works on access to legal representation and rights protection for people harmed by the criminal legal system. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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3 / 3 |
Cabrini Green Legal Aid provides legal-support intake options for people who need help with criminal, family, housing, and protection-order matters. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 74/100
7 verified linked claims 7 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 7/12 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
7 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
7 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 6/10
7/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources
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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Cabrini Green Legal Aid presents itself as a nonprofit legal-aid organization rooted in community legal needs.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid homepageGeneral web source · 58%
2Cabrini Green Legal Aid provides legal services, social support services, and advocacy for people and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid mission and historyGeneral web source · 58%
3Cabrini Green Legal Aid's core work is holistic legal aid, wraparound services, and advocacy rather than fee-maximizing legal practice.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid homepageGeneral web source · 58%
4Cabrini Green Legal Aid says it serves low-income individuals affected by the criminal legal system and aims to remove barriers to equity.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid homepageGeneral web source · 58%
5Cabrini Green Legal Aid explicitly challenges criminalization of poverty and racial inequity through legal services and advocacy.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid homepageGeneral web source · 58%
6Cabrini Green Legal Aid works on access to legal representation and rights protection for people harmed by the criminal legal system.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid homepageGeneral web source · 58%
7Cabrini Green Legal Aid provides legal-support intake options for people who need help with criminal, family, housing, and protection-order matters.
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid mission and historyGeneral web source · 58%
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