Fewer and fewer high school age kids are working these days. There are lots of jobs: Fast food service, summer landscaping, pizza delivery, auto detailing, data entry, and step-and-fetch-it jobs for teens in almost every industry. The list of potential money-making opportunities is almost endless, but there seems to be a lack of wanna. Snowplow…Continue reading Why Kids Should Work
Police investigators here and across the country are concerned about the growing ties between social media and youth homicides. Just connect the dots. In many cases the victim in a shooting was previously warned or threatened on Instagram, Twitter, TicTok, and others. Mothers are literally buying bus tickets to get junior out of town. When…Continue reading Social Media & the Rise in Youth Homicide
Let’s just put the answer out right up front: Yes. Here’s what the experts say… Jeffery Ulmer, professor of criminal law and justice, who oversaw a study by Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute says, “In the big picture, religious presence seems to [influence] the amount of violence and crime in a community, it matters…Continue reading More God, Less Crime…Really?
Read about plans to conduct a new study to examine the results for reentrants who received transportation services to and from work, Unite Indy’s participation at the recent OPHS Job Fair, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our August 2023 newsletter.
For those who think that ex-offenders can’t make a stunning comeback, I give you Charles Dutton. He was sentenced to five years for manslaughter in 1967 after a knife fight in which a man was killed. Out on parole, he was arrested on robbery and handgun charges and was sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for…Continue reading From Solitary to the Stars, From Convict to Closer
It has long troubled me that our state legislators do not pass a 36 percent APR cap on payday loans in Indiana. Ninety percent of Hoosiers agree that a 36 percent Annual Percentage Rate (APR) cap should be enacted—so what’s the hold up? These small loans are aimed at those with an urgent need and…Continue reading Ohio Payday Loan Legislative Scandal…Here?
Read about how payday lenders gouge borrowers with rates as high as 391% APR, Conexus’s Catapult program, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our July 2023 newsletter.
A good friend who I’ll call “Benny” is a former inmate who is having a rough time. He’s been out of prison for a couple of years, but it has been a series of uphill battles with few successes. He entered prison as a teenager and made very few decisions on his own for the…Continue reading It’s Up To Him
A few years ago, I put together a recidivism map that showed re-incarceration rates in Indiana counties were between 30 and 50 percent, using source data from the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC). But after learning that IDOC only counts Indiana prison inmates who are re-incarcerated in an Indiana prison, it became obvious why the…Continue reading Amended Recidivism Rates & The High Cost of Prison’s Revolving Door
Read about our Reentry Transportation Program Report, job opportunities for those living in work release programs, under home detention, or those with ankle monitors, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our June 2023 newsletter.
