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Redeploy Illinois is a community-based alternative to incarceration, which keeps kids in their home communities. For decades, most youthful offenders in Illinois were sent to juvenile detention. But 17 years ago, state officials decided there is a better way to help kids headed down the wrong path. The program, considered a...
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CHICAGO — A little more than a year after Illinois became the eleventh state to legalize recreational cannabis, legal-aid groups are working to help residents get past cannabis convictions expunged through a state-funded program called the New Leaf Initiative. Gray Mateo-Harris, a board member of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation,...
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CHICAGO – A poco más de un año de que Illinois se convirtiera en el undécimo estado en legalizar el uso recreativo del cannabis, grupos de asesoría legal están trabajando para ayudar a los residentes a exonerar las condenas por cannabis mediante un programa financiado por el estado llamado...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Un nuevo informe respalda los argumentos de que los adultos jóvenes no deben ser procesados en un tribunal de adultos en Illinois. Los hallazgos del Juvenile Law Center confirmaron que las tasas de encarcelamiento de jóvenes han disminuido en los últimos años, ya que los funcionarios...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A new report puts some weight behind arguments that young adults should not be prosecuted in adult court in Illinois. The findings from the Juvenile Law Center confirmed youth incarceration rates have fallen in recent years, as officials recognize the developmental differences between adolescents and adults. But incarceration...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Los trabajadores postales en Illinois se encuentran entre los que piden una acción rápida del Congreso para salvar el Servicio Postal de los EE. UU. Jackie Engelhart, presidente del Área Local del Noroeste de Illinois (NWIAL) 194 de la American Postal Workers Union (APWU), dice que...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Postal workers in Illinois are among those calling for swift action by Congress to save the U.S. Postal Service. Jackie Engelhart, president of Northwest Illinois Area Local (NWIAL) 194 of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), says postal workers have been crucial in serving the public...
Redeploy Illinois is a community-based alternative to incarceration, which keeps kids in their home communities. For decades, most youthful offenders in Illinois were sent to juvenile detention. But 17 years ago, state officials decided there is a better way to help kids headed down the wrong path. The program, considered a...
CHICAGO — A little more than a year after Illinois became the eleventh state to legalize recreational cannabis, legal-aid groups are working to help residents get past cannabis convictions expunged through a state-funded program called the New Leaf Initiative. Gray Mateo-Harris, a board member of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation,...
CHICAGO – A poco más de un año de que Illinois se convirtiera en el undécimo estado en legalizar el uso recreativo del cannabis, grupos de asesoría legal están trabajando para ayudar a los residentes a exonerar las condenas por cannabis mediante un programa financiado por el estado llamado...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Un nuevo informe respalda los argumentos de que los adultos jóvenes no deben ser procesados en un tribunal de adultos en Illinois. Los hallazgos del Juvenile Law Center confirmaron que las tasas de encarcelamiento de jóvenes han disminuido en los últimos años, ya que los funcionarios...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A new report puts some weight behind arguments that young adults should not be prosecuted in adult court in Illinois. The findings from the Juvenile Law Center confirmed youth incarceration rates have fallen in recent years, as officials recognize the developmental differences between adolescents and adults. But incarceration...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Los trabajadores postales en Illinois se encuentran entre los que piden una acción rápida del Congreso para salvar el Servicio Postal de los EE. UU. Jackie Engelhart, presidente del Área Local del Noroeste de Illinois (NWIAL) 194 de la American Postal Workers Union (APWU), dice que...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Postal workers in Illinois are among those calling for swift action by Congress to save the U.S. Postal Service. Jackie Engelhart, president of Northwest Illinois Area Local (NWIAL) 194 of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), says postal workers have been crucial in serving the public...
