as well as formerly incarcerated individuals or those in recovery. This is a great example of how doing things for communities and others isn’t limited to nonprofit. Ivey takes a hobby like knitting, and empowers people through opportunities for commerce. ...
A record may not contain the inmate’s projected release date because a person can be held in a county jail while waiting for court. They may not have been sentenced yet. A jail can also hold an inmate to be transferred into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Generally, the exceptional volunteers in the Greenville initiative were individuals who had a long-time, often religiously motivated commitment to service. They were gratified to find that they could make a difference in Strong Communities not just with individual families but also with particular ...
That’s not to say I have lived a life with a blind eye to service thus far. I joined the Peace Corps after college, I currently lead seminars for incarcerated and post-release men and women, and I think it’s safe to say no one ever became a teacher or an academic “for the mon...
t have a lot of Aboriginal clients and you think, well, there was probably something that you or your predecessor did that made someone turn around and never come back again, and because you’re not proactive you’ve never done anything to find out what that was or help them take a ...
8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” ...
and counsel to other people in other parts of the country around that. We encourage people to find ways that they can engage any population, whether it be youth or formerly incarcerated to have a social enterprise around that and give them the opportunity to work and establish a work history...
It wasn’t until his mother died while he was in prison that Charles felt a true spark to change. “She was his backbone,” Melanese said. “But after his mother passed, he had no sense of home and he said, ‘I have to create my home and find my purpose and meaning.’” Charles...
“Aboriginal art,” generated specific frustrations. As one Haida artist explained to me, she did not want to apply to the Aboriginal-specific art competitions because she felt it forced her to reduce the meaning of her work to “Indigenous themes”—a tokenizing gesture that she worried w...
Incarceration history, meaning the offense, county, and court of conviction of offenses for which the inmate was previously incarcerated. Current incarceration, meaning the offense, county and court of conviction. Projected release date. The searcher must include the inmate’s name in the subject lin...