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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.
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September 20, 2024
The number of women held in Indiana jails has grown exponentially in the last several decades. Since 1980 to 2015 the numbers have increased by 1,492%, and the female prison population in Indiana through 2017 increased by 1,012%.