Illinois Companies Could Receive Tax Break For Hiring Ex-Convicts

Illinois Companies Could Receive Tax Break For Hiring Ex-Convicts
In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, an inmate at the Madera County Jail is taken to one of the inmate housing units in Madera, Calif. County lockups, designed to hold prisoners for no more than a year are now being asked to incarcerate inmates serving the kind of lengthy sentences that used to send them to prisons. In some counties attorney's representing inmates say it is leading to poor conditions similar to those that previously plagued state prisons.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, an inmate at the Madera County Jail is taken to one of the inmate housing units in Madera, Calif. County lockups, designed to hold prisoners for no more than a year are now being asked to incarcerate inmates serving the kind of lengthy sentences that used to send them to prisons. In some counties attorney's representing inmates say it is leading to poor conditions similar to those that previously plagued state prisons.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

SPRINGFIELD, IL (IRN) - Unemployment is a big issue in Illinois, with the overall statewide rate at 9 percent. What can make it harder to get a job is if you are an ex-convict.

A state senator hopes to get a bill passed that would give businesses tax incentives for hiring ex-offenders, as long as the offense was not a sex offense.

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