Chicago should consider outcomes-based training for ex-offenders

Earlier this year, a 39-year-old Chicago man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for carrying a loaded gun on the CTA Blue Line while he was still on supervised release for a previous drug conviction. The U.S. attorney's office's news release details everything about his crime. It says nothing about the opportunities available to him when he first left prison. The man is one of roughly 20,000 people who return home to Chicago from Illinois prisons every year on top of the roughly…