May 24, 2024 , The Criterion, Archdiocese of Indianapolis Corrections Ministries
Nancy Cotterill's blog post, "Should all lifers be lifers? Program offers a second chance for a new life" was reprinted in The Criterion with permission from 2nd Chance Indiana.
August 25, 2023, Indianapolis Business Journal, By Taylor Wooten, IBJ Copyright © 2023 All Rights Reserved, IBJ Photo/Chad Williams
Amid a nationwide worker shortage, central Indiana employers are increasingly taking a chance on new hires who have been arrested or convicted of a crime...
February 22, 2023, Kokomo Tribune, By James Bennett III, © 2023 Kokomo Tribune, Photo/Tim Bath, Kokomo Tribune
Things looked bleak for Michael Paul's future when he was arrested in 2018 for low-level felony charges for selling drugs and criminal confinement. As he put it, he had been going "full throttle" at the time...
October 16, 2022, The Shelbyville News, By Ross Flint, © 2023 Shelby News
With tears and big smiles spread across their faces, six participants in a new program graduated from a 16-week course that they hope sends them down a new path in life on Tuesday...
June 13, 2022, WRTV
By working together, UNITE INDY, Indiana Department of Corrections Parole, Marion County Community Corrections, and Marion County Probation have given Hoosiers on parole, probation, under supervision with community corrections, or those who have a past felony conviction a second chance...
August 2, 2021, Inside Indiana Business
Jim and Nancy Cotterill launched UNITE INDY four years ago to help those living in poverty find jobs. Now, they're helping inmates prepare to find work when they are released. Jim Cotterill explains how the program works...
September 10, 2020, WISH TV 8
Community Link hosts Carolene Mays-Medley and Marco Dominguez had a conversation with the leaders of Unite Indy in Thursday's edition of "We Stand Together."...
On April 10, 2020
Jim Cotterill was interviewed yesterday on a Faith Hope & Love Community Facebook Live event by Merlin Gonzales. They talked about UNITE INDY, COVID-19, and why UNITE INDY is a participating ministry in Joint Christian Response, a local affiliate of Christian Emergency Network...
April 7, 2020
We're hopeful that the research being done by the Lacy School of Business at Butler University will substantiate the anecdotal evidence we have which indicates that employers can receive multiple benefits as a result of their willingness to give second chances to ex-offenders...
January 16, 2020, Indianapolis Recorder, By Nancy Cotterill
In the last five years payday loan companies have drained $322 million out of the Indiana economy in fees and high interest rates, making huge profits off the backs of the poor, mostly affecting those in our urban areas and predominantly people of color, thanks to the Indiana legislature, which in 2002 carved a special deal for payday lenders out of our criminal loansharking laws...
