Carl Cannon wants to make things clear up front: He is not in the business of doing scared-straight programs. "This is different," Cannon, the founder of Elite Community Outreach, said before a Friday ...

STURTEVANT -- Faced with a shrinking budget and a staff that was stretched too thin, the Racine Correctional Institution has discarded a program that brought young people behind prison walls for a ...

Carl Cannon and Elite coordinated with the Peoria County Sheriff's Office to try and steer a group of seventh- and eighth-graders in a positive direction. Inmates in the Elite Re-Entry Program shared ...