IT STILL MAY BE AVAILABLE TO CEN GOVERNMENT ACTIONS.

>> WHAT CAN BE SOME OF THE BENE.

THE BENEFITS.

>> EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, YOU ARE ARE ENCOURAGED TO CHECK A BACKG.

A BACKGROUND.

IT CAN CAUSE A PROBLEM WITH HOUSING AS WELL TO TO AXIS BENEFITS.

RESOURCES TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND THINGS OF OF THAT NATURE.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT AREA TO OVERCOME IS SOMETIMES THE EMOTIONAL BARRIER.

EMOTIONAL BARRIER.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AND FEEL LIKE THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING.

THEY OFTEN DON'T EVEN TRY TO DO DO SOME THINGS.

>> THIS WEEK WE REPORTED THE CLEMENCY PROCESS CAN BE LONG AND SOMETIMES KIND OF DARK.

YOU DARK.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR CHANCES ARE UNTIL THE DECISION IS MADE.

YOU JUST MENTIONED OUT OUT OF THE 3100 CASES RECURRED, RECURRED, 10% WERE GRANTED.

HOW GRANTED.

HOW REALISTIC IS OBTAINING CLEMENCY FOR PEOPLE STILL INCARCERATED?

>> IT IS CHALLENGING.

IF YOU CONSIDER THE NUMBERS OF WHO IS IN PRISON, APPROXIMATELY 71,000 71,000 IN ILLINOIS, ABOUT 41,000 IN STATE PRISONS.

OF THAT POPULATION, ABOUT 10,000 ARE SERVING SENTENCES THAT ARE IN EXCESS OF 20 YEARS.

AND 64% OF THAT POPULATION ARE FOLKS WHO ARE BLACK.

SO IT REALLY IS ONE OF THE ONLY REMEDIES ONCE YOU EXHAUSTED YOUR PILLS AND HAE BEEN DENIED CLEMENCY RELEASE.

THAT IS ONE OF THE REMAINING MECHANISMS FOR REVIEW.

BUT IT IS A LONG PROCESS.

>> BASED ON WHAT WE JUST HEARD, , IS THERE MORE OF THE KATE SHOULD, OR COULD, BE DOING TO PROVIDE OPTIONS FOR RELIEF?

>> YOU TALK ABOUT PEOPLE STILL IN PRISON?

>> PEOPLE WHO HAVE FINISHED THEIR SENTENCES.

BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN PUSH BACK AGAINST THE THREE YEAR WAITING PERIOD.

WHEN I FIRST STARTED THIS WORK IN 2009 -- IT IS HARD HARD TO SAY IF THERE IS ROOM TO TO MAKE THAT TYPE OF CHANGE.

WHAT I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE SEE IS MORE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN PRISON.

WE USED TO HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES.

MORE OPPORTUNITIES.

AND THEN WE WE STARTED CUTTING BACK SUNDAY.

SUNDAY.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SITTING IN PRISON WHO WE KNOW ARE GOING TO COME OUT AT SOME TIME.

THEY ARE SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING.

AND MANY OF THEM THEM WOULD LIKE TO LEARN A SKILL OR TRADE OR GET A DEGREE.

DEGREE.

THEY WOULD BE MUCH MORE MORE SUCCESSFUL WHEN THEY GOT OT IF THEY HAVE THOSE THINGS.

>> WHAT IS THE ADVICE TO FOLKS WHO COME HOME WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS, WHERE SHOULD THEY GET STARTED?

>> IF THEY DON'T HAVE A SKILL THAT IS MARKETABLE, THEY NEED TO FIND ONE.

THERE AREN'T ENOUGH JANITORIAL POSITIONS TO