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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.

...In 2005, 46% of people in Indiana state prisons were serving at least 10 years. By 2020, that figure had risen to 63%. While murder convictions were most likely to result in long sentences, drug offenses accounted for the largest share, and 20% of drug offenders were sent to prison for terms of 10 years or more. (Something to tell the kids.) Meanwhile, the cost of incarceration is costing taxpayers more and more.


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