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Michael Boester Quoted in The Chicago Reporter


The Chicago Reporter article “The Road Less Traveled,” (March 27 issue) includes the perspective of MCC Assistant Professor Michael Boester (Chemistry and Geosciences) on how travel distance impacts the visitation of incarcerated persons in Illinois.

According to Boester, “The distance, in many cases, is a result of a prison building boom that began in the 1970s, focused on revitalizing lagging economies of rural farming communities.” Boester studied the social impact of three downstate Illinois communities that successfully lobbied for prisons in the late 1990s. “The economic impact weighed more than the social impact,” he said.

To read the article, please click on the link below:

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Cover_Stories/d/The_Road_Less_Traveled

Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
03/31/2008