Chicago should consider outcomes-based training for ex-offenders

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<p>Earlier this year, a 39-year-old Chicago man was <a class="Link" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/man-sentenced-three-years-federal-prison-illegally-possessing-loaded-handgun-chicago" target="_blank" >sentenced</a> to three years in federal prison for carrying a loaded gun on the CTA Blue Line while he was still on supervised release for a previous drug conviction. attorney's office's news release details everything about his crime. It says nothing about the opportunities available to him when he first left prison.</p><p>The man is one of roughly <a class="Link" href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/supp_info/ex-offender_re-entryinitiatives.html" target="_blank" >20,000 people</a> who return home to Chicago from Illinois prisons every year on top of the roughly <a class="Link" href="https://loyolaccj.org/blog/whats-driving-increases-in-the-cook-county-jail-population" target="_blank" >25,000 admissions </a>who cycle through Cook County Jail annually. Most return to a handful of neighborhoods on the South and West sides, and most come home to no job, no credentials, no savings and a record that slams doors shut.</p><p>We know what happens next.

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