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BY STEVE TARTER
OF THE JOURNAL STAR

PEORIA Jennifer Daly

has a message for workers
at Caterpillar Inc. who may
be getting laid off, retiring
or taking the buyout recently offered by the company:
Stick around.
The executive director of
the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council is
putting together a program
that will offer options and
provide assistance to those
who might be leaving Caterpillar and anyone else
facing a career change.
While Caterpillars recent
announcement of plans
to lay off 10,000 workers
across its global network by
2018 has sent shock waves
across central Illinois, the
EDC plan isnt limited to
employees displaced by the
earth-moving giant.
We want to help anybody
going through a job change.
We know there are many
people living in this area
that work at the Mitsubishi
plant in Normal, for example, she said, referring
to the auto plant set to close
after November.
We want to help people
stay in the Peoria area,
said Daly, who outlined her
Stay GP (Greater Peoria)
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ABOVE: Illinois Valley Central product and Cleveland Indians pitcher Zach McAllister, right, battles for position
against Rex Vote, left, as they race through Downtown
Peoria on Wednesday. Hoping to heighten awareness of
challenges faced by the disabled, relay teams participated in a Wheel-a-Thon sponsored by Advocates for
Access, a not-for-prot organization that helps people
with disabilities to live independently. The group said
about 20 percent of Americans have some type of a
disability. Riders took turns navigating the sidewalks
and crosswalks at the Peoria County Courthouse.
RIGHT: Pekin Insurance team member Brenda Ledbetter, left, laughs as teammate Heidi Hutchison puts a
crown and chest plate on her as their team costume.

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Sentencing changes release 6,000 inmates early

Recommended terms for drug
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WASHINGTON, D.C. A push to

overhaul criminal sentencing is
prompting the early release of
thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once described as threats to
society, according to an Associated
Press review of court records.
About 6,000 inmates are due to

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be freed in the coming month, the

result of changes made last year to
guidelines that provide judges with
recommended sentences for specific crimes. The Justice Department
says roughly 40,000 inmates could
benefit in coming years.
Many of them are small-time
drug dealers targeted by an approach to drug enforcement now
condemned by many as overly
harsh and expensive. But an AP
analysis of nearly 100 court cases
also found defendants who carried
semi-automatic weapons, had past
convictions for robbery and other
crimes, moved cocaine shipments

across states, and participated in

international heroin smuggling.
Supporters of lighter drug sentences say theres no evidence that
longer punishment protects public
safety. Studies show that inmates
released early arent more likely to
reoffend than those who serve their
entire sentences.
Still, the broad spectrum of
defendants granted early release
including some about whom
prosecutors not long ago raised
dire warnings underscores the
complex decisions confronting the
government as it pursues an overhaul of drug sentencing.

Im a career prosecutor. Im a
law-and-order girl, and I believe
that you need to send dangerous
people to prison for a very long
time, said Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. But I think that
we need to be smart about deciding
who are those dangerous people.
Willie Best, a one-time District
of Columbia drug dealer whose
sentence was already cut under
crack guideline changes, had an
additional month taken off and is
due out in 2016.
Prosecutors said Best helped
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