Two years ago, Tee was a broken woman. Stymied by her struggles, rejected by employers, embroiled in an extended family of poverty and powerlessness, wrapped up in her own grief, and defined by [...]
In the US, about 2,000 people are being released today, and every day, from state and federal prisons. When someone is released from the penitentiary, they’re often put outside the prison gates [...]
There may be no category of people with more hopelessness directed their way, than people who’ve returned to our community after incarceration. Expected by most to fail, the exclusion is [...]
The sweet sound of a friendly dispute trickled down our office hallway one recent afternoon. David was trying to give Project Return the credit for the great new job he’d just gotten. We argued [...]
Lives are under threat. It is all around, all the time: this ubiquitous, predictable-in-its-unpredictability menace. The awareness infuses people’s waking hours and often haunts their dreams; it [...]
We may be craving a little constancy these days, while the pandemic swirls around us, while employment is swept out from under people who’ve returned from incarceration, while we worry about [...]
Someone getting out of prison right now will likely land at the Greyhound Station on Lafayette, and have no place to go, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ll hear the imperatives about [...]
It was early March and we had spent the whole weekend composing Project Return’s COVID-19 Preparedness & Response Plan. It couldn’t have been more thoughtful and well-intentioned [...]
Dollars and sense were center stage at our Employer Roundtable on July 18th. Middle Tennessee employers – spanning healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, customer service, and construction – [...]
The email hit my Project Return inbox, and my first thought was, this is an April Fool’s joke. How else could I explain getting an invitation to the White House for April 1st! It would be the [...]
