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Prisoners in Chicago Learn Skills, Improve Neighborhoods by Demolishing Vacant Homes

Cook County, Illinois has become the first county in the nation to employ a new, double-edged strategy to attack neighborhood blight and train jail prisoners for productive employment following their release, by using prisoner labor to tear down abandoned houses that erode property values and, in many cases, become magnets ...

 

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