Iska Hoole is the Tullahoma office managing attorney for Legal Aid Society and assists clients with employment, re-entry, immigration, health, income and education issues.
Not everyone can relate to the challenges of people with criminal records or view them as a vulnerable population.
Their struggles often go unseen or are misunderstood.
Some Tennesseans may not realize that they themselves are likely to have a neighbor, co-worker, friend or family member with a criminal record.
In fact, as the Wall Street Journal reported in 2015, one in three Americans has been arrested at some point during their adulthood. It is in everyone’s best interest that this section of our population succeeds.