Katie Mulvaney, Providence Journal This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: ‘This is my last chance’: How an ACI program wants to lift people from prison to tech jobs. CRANSTON – It’s a Friday morning just before noon and 15 men are quietly hunched over computers in the medium-security unit at the Adult Correctional Institutions. Occasionally, an […]
By: Jessica Gruenling, WRTV INDIANAPOLIS — Each morning, Billie Edison drives to work at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. “I pull into the parking lot and I still get emotional,” said Edison. It’s a route she’s taken for almost nine months now for her job with the Indiana Pacers. “I cannot believe I’m coming to work for this organization,” […]
Recidivism is high. Empowering people and innovators would help. Evan Feinberg offers a principles-based approach to tackling over-incarceration and poverty. The country’s poverty rate has not budged in the last 50 years. Addiction is rising and 82% of people released from U.S. prisons are eventually jailed again. These challenges persist because society misjudges people and problems, Stand Together Vice President Evan […]
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