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Nancy Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. She was editor and later publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal, and then created a not-for-profit online news outlet for the four million wheelchair users in the U.S. As an award-winning journalist, Nancy uses her talents to promote efforts to fight the causes of overall poverty throughout our area while working to spread the specific message that second chance employment is lowering recidivism, changing lives, and raising families out of poverty.

November 7, 2024

Indiana's longest-serving female prisoner, Sarah "Cindy" White has been in prison 48 years for starting a fire that killed a family of six on New Year's Eve in 1975. The Indianapolis Star, numerous television shows, and digital media have all featured her sad case, in spite of the fact that she admitted starting the fire. Why?


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241 West 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

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Our mission is to reduce recidivism and rebuild lives through the dignity of work.