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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.

Some people are working to exonerate those who "really didn't do it. In one case, prosecutors did not bother to test the crime scene DNA—until now, 20 years later. Not surprisingly, the DNA is not a match to Chris, who has spent 26 years in prison. And investigators have found hard evidence that He was elsewhere when the murders occurred. Prosecutors did not mention that during the trial.


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