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Illinois Prisons Dropping Computer Classes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois prisons are dropping computer-related classes because too few ex-convicts are getting jobs in the field.

The program operated at 11 state prisons with help from community colleges.

Corrections Department spokeswoman Sharyn Elman says a five-year review showed parolees weren't getting jobs in the field in numbers large enough to justify the courses.

A business-management class was also eliminated.

Elman says there probably won't be a large cost savings because different classes will replace the eliminated courses.

But state government has a $13 billion deficit and one community college has announced it has halted cooperation with Corrections because state payments are so late.

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