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The Kansas City, Missouri-based nonprofit SWAGG, INC which works with people while they're in prison to help them land on their feet once they're released greeted its first client to be released Thursday.

More than 600 travel organizations signed on to a letter today asking lawmakers to include the travel industry in any further Covid assistance it doles out to other industries lobbying for pandemic aid.

UMF is hosting a series of Franklin County community action meetings on restorative justice with local law enforcement, organizations, leaders and other state prisoner advocacy and reentry organizations.

The free virtual events are designed to help justice-involved job-seekers land a gig in a post-COVID market. Read more at Boston.com.

Cascade Engineering found it wasn't enough to open its doors to welfare recipients and people who had been incarcerated. It needed innovative thinking, and it needed to go deeper.

Desmond Meade speaks to students in Florida Memorial University’s Construction Trades program. COURTESY OF MIAMI DOLPHINS SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER MIAMI GARDENS – On April 27, Florida Memorial University (FMU) hosted a book signing event with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), in partnership with the Miami Dolphins and Lennar Foundation. Students from FMU’s  Certificate Program in Construction Trades program had the opportunity to hear from FRRC President a...

When Larry Krasner took over the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 2018 after decades as a civil rights and defense lawyer, he quickly overhauled staffing, set policy goals, and instituted a series of tone-setting mandates. For instance, when requesting a prison sentence, each prosecutor was told to state in court the estimated cost to taxpayers of the incarceration. But several busy defense lawyers said they never recalled seeing that happen. The times it did, it irked some judge...

When Larry Krasner took over the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in 2018 after decades as a civil rights and defense lawyer, he quickly overhauled staffing, set policy goals, and instituted a series of tone-setting mandates. For instance, when requesting a prison sentence, each prosecutor was told to state in court the estimated cost to taxpayers of the incarceration. But several busy ...

Haul of donated designer clothes will help ex-inmates look good on the job Today 2:00 PM Natasha Mikulich, the outreach librarian at the Trenton Free Public Library, was on a Zoom call a few weeks ago with some community partners when someone from another organization, The Father Center of New Jersey, mentioned the mayor of Secaucus having a load of donated designer clothes. “So I was fortunate enough to drive up and get a carful of them,” Mikulich said Thursday at the Trenton library. So ...

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