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Tag: fitness leadership

Illinois Youth Center speaker to discuss ‘Flexing Behind Bars’ of juvenile detention

March 26, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

In the six months since Project FLEX began delivering physical education and leadership training to young men incarcerated in the Illinois Youth Center of St. Charles, many eyes have been opened. Jenn Jacobs and Zach Wahl-Alexander, professors in the NIU Department of

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KNPE professors, grad student launch Project FLEX inside Illinois Youth Center

October 2, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Opened in December 1904, the 120-acre Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles can hold 348 juvenile males in its Level 2 medium-security facility. The average daily population of 138 represents about 40 percent of that capacity. The average age is 17. Those

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