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1. Article number 1 - Inside Out—Volunteers further Life Skills goal of making lifelong inmate impact
2. Article number 2 - "It’s way more than bags for me”: Illinois inmates bag thousands of sandbags for flood victims
3. Article number 3 - Singing behind bars: Higher Ground providing a tune to a life on the outside
4. Article number 4 - April 22, 2019 -- Hill Correctional graduates 6 in first entrepreneur class
5. Article number 5 - March 24, 2019 - Here's how Decatur prison's grooming program pampers pets, helps rebuild lives

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  Inside Out—Volunteers further Life Skills goal of making lifelong inmate impact

  Just past the security checkpoint at the Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center is a door and a hallway that leads to the rather small office of the facility’s spiritual advisor. Chaplain Justin York, a fourth generation pastor, has worked at the center since July of 2015. He’s had other jobs, including being a youth pastor, which he found rewarding, but guiding men from prison to productive lives on the outside is his sweet spot.
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  "It’s way more than bags for me”: Illinois inmates bag thousands of sandbags for flood victims

  Multiple state agencies are still working side by side to save river communities up and down the Mississippi. Thousands of sandbags have been filled by men at the DuQuoin Impact Incarceration Program to help protect river counties threatened by flooding.
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  Singing behind bars: Higher Ground providing a tune to a life on the outside

  There are many instruments for change inside the Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center, but one of the latest has the men at the facility finding music to help them prepare and feel closer to life after incarceration.
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  April 22, 2019 -- Hill Correctional graduates 6 in first entrepreneur class

  GALESBURG — Six men became the first graduates Monday of a new entrepreneur program being offered to inmates of Hill Correctional Center.
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  March 24, 2019 - Here's how Decatur prison's grooming program pampers pets, helps rebuild lives

  DECATUR — At 19, Rock is old in dog years, but he is still lovable. The pit bull-Doberman mix dog is owned by Kim Schwalbach, who adopted him from the Macon County Animal Shelter 17 years ago.