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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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February 10, 2026
Even a 1% reduction in the number of Indiana inmates will save state taxpayers more than $1.55 million. But we can do better than 1% (which is only 240 people over the years we could save $15 million). Cutting recidivism saves not only money. It saves lives. Consider that 89% of those rearrested are unemployed.
