The Daily Yonder A Farm in North Carolina Offers a Women’s Reentry Program Unlike Any Other Benevolence Farm offers a mix of personal independence, structure, work and training that helps formerly incarcerated women ease into life on the outside.
Benevolence Farm house and barn. (Photo submitted by Kristen Powers)
In recent decades, the number of women incarcerated in North Carolina has skyrocketed. In 2017, the state’s female prison population totaled 2,634, almost six times its 1978 number.
In the early aughts, programming for women reentering society lagged behind growing incarceration rates, said Benevolence Farm Executive Director Kristen Powers in a phone interview.
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Debbie Smith is decades removed from the years she had to worry about bailing herself and her loved ones out of jail, but she still wrestles with the memories.
A native of Missouri, Smith lived a somewhat nomadic life before settling down in Burlington. She married her first husband at a young age. One of her first experiences with the particulars of paying bail was due to legal trouble her husband was in before they had met.
As a newlywed, she found herself having to pay bail associated with a robbery. I didn t know this at the time I married him, Smith said. When he got arrested for that I had to make arrangements to get his bond made.