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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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August 21, 2024
There is a very real revolving door from poverty to incarceration. Incarceration in turn, exacerbates poverty and its relatives: Food insecurity, homelessness, and the destruction of the family unit. Let's just say it's an easy round trip.
