“If you do that, if you give ex-cons jobs to help rebuild their community, they start to care about it. They’d say, ‘Hey man, you ain’t fittin’ to be selling those drugs right here. We fixing this. We doing this. You know, give them the power back to their community. Give them the keys back to their community.”
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Michael Flowers of Chicago’s Austin neighborhood
Cell blocks, by Angela Caputo
FILM: The Interrupters
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And THIS is how you do right with ex cons.
Give them JOBS.
Make them feel like they belong again instead of treating them like lifetime degenerates!
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Right now, our society says you can be an ex-con, but you will never be an ex ex-con. And we wonder why our recidivism rate is so high…
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