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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Close to 40% of people released from prison in Illinois return within three years.
Description: The state of Illinois says close to 40 percent of people released from prison in Illinois return within three years.
But one Chicago man went through a program 14 years ago that he says kept him out of prison.
Shaq Wilson’s success is part of the reason the program is now expanding.
WBEZ’s Esther Yoon-Ji Kang has his story from Chicago’s West Side.