Despite a global pandemic and a severe economic recession, Georgetown University has endangered many of its workers with threats to their wages and health insurance. In August 2020, Georgetown ...

BLOOMINGTON — Mention the word redeployment and most people think of troops being assigned to another combat zone. But nine years ago, Illinois lawmakers used the term to define Redeploy Illinois, a ...

How Champaign County responds to reports ("Full house at juvenile detention center," The News-Gazette, Feb. 24) of an "upswing in serious crime by juveniles" will have long-term consequences for ...

Ayvaughn Lester’s 16-year-old son was about to return to juvenile detention last winter until a new program interceded. Rather than being incarcerated, again, the youth was enrolled in Redeploy ...

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to remove identifying information about the teenager at the center of this article who reached out years after publication requesting that his name be ...

Paige Garrison, left, and James Benson both will be working in Cunningham Children’s Home in Urbana to provide services and resources for juveniles as part of Champaign County’s Redeploy program.

SPRINGFIELD — Redeploy Illinois for nonviolent offenders represents one of the positive developments to come out of the state’s efforts to overhaul sentencing practices, examine ways to reduce crime ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Human Services says a program concentrating on rehabilitating delinquent youth saved the state $60 million in incarceration costs last year. The ...

ROCKFORD — About 60 high school-age students have participated in Rockford Public Schools' Youth Court, and only five have reoffended. Similarly during the past three years, 70 juveniles in Winnebago ...