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| IL Juveniles Get A Fresh Start |
| By huffingtonpost.com |
| Published: 01/20/2011 |
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In Illinois, 73 percent of 17 to 21 year olds who leave prison will return in three years or less. Often jobless and with little education to fall back on, teens return to the crimes that landed them in jail in the first place. Chelsea Armstrong, founder of the Chicago non-profit Tabula Rasa, wants to change those statistics. Armstrong, a 28-year-old educator, moved to Chicago from New Mexico in 2006 and became a teacher. She taught at York Alternative High School located inside of the Cook County Department of Corrections building. "I went in at 22-years-old teaching English to 17 to 20-year-old men awaiting trial and within two months I had already seen students leave jail and come back," Armstrong told HuffPost Chicago. After seeing that these young men lacked a support system, Armstrong decided to make a change. Read More. |
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