Geography Reference
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Figure 8. Community assets & food vendors in Humboldt Park (2010).
The Cook County Sheriff's Office runs a Boot Camp program to provide
inmates in Cook County Jail with physical and job training.
Chicago
Federation of Labor
's Workers Assistance Committee (CFL-WAC) helps
prepare graduates of the Boot Camp for the job market and their return to their
communities. GIS was used to examine what communities the Boot Camp
participants return to and what the characteristics of those communities are
(Ambuehl et al., 2008). This mapping project suggests that if a participant
returns to neighborhoods with high crime, unemployment, or poverty, then a
participant is more likely to re-engage in criminal activity. This project
