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Orleans Reentry Court Program Team

 

Orleans Reentry Court Program (ORCP): Persistence, Peers, and Possibilities

Learn about a unique reentry program in Louisiana that starts while individuals are incarcerated and hear from those who have gone through the program and are now helping others to be successful upon release.

 

Second Chance Pell Stories - Tulsa Community College - Dick Conner Correctional Facility

We all need second chances. WATCH these inspiring #SecondChancePell stories that show what can happen when students have the freedom to use Federal aid in expanded ways.

 

 

Credible Messengers

Credible Messengers are neighborhood leaders, prevention and reentry specialists, and individuals with relevant life experiences (often including their own involvement with the criminal justice system) who serve as coaches, guides and mentors for justice-involved individuals. These Credible Messengers have partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia to help reduce recidivism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvpbpeebXE

 

FPC Alderson’s All-Female Inmate Fire Brigade

 

FPC Alderson’s All-Female Inmate Fire Brigade

Inmate fire brigade protects federal property and assists the local community

 

 

 

 

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Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) Lessons for Success

Former Edgefield Inmate Returns to Talk about RDAP

 

 

Kalei Cheeks

 

Voices of Reentry

Building Trust to Rebuild Lives

Voices of Reentry is a series of profiles of people making good on second chances after they return from incarceration. Articles in the series tell individual stories to highlight the impact of programs funded under federal Improved Reentry Education grants.
 

 

 

William (Bill) Vaskie

 

 

Voices of Reentry

Thinking Long Term

Voices of Reentry is a series of profiles of people making good on second chances after they return from incarceration. Articles in the series tell individual stories to highlight the impact of programs funded under federal Improved Reentry Education grants.

 

Toni Ubri

 

OIC of South Florida: DOL – SOAR Program Participant Highlights

Both Keandre Heard and Toni Ubri enrolled into to the OIC SOAR program. These two gentlemen were committed to partnering with OIC- SFL and to investing in their own future. Listen to their stories.

 

Jeff

Fort Des Moines Community Correction Center CIRCA Program

Jeff joined the CIRCA construction cohort at Fort Des Moines as the oldest member, and perhaps the most determined. Learn more about Jeff.

 

 

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