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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 [...]

As Project Return celebrates its 40th birthday this week, we are reminded of our beginnings and how they set us on our current trajectory. Project Return experienced a 43% increase in [...]

With jerky, faltering movements, Jimmie made his way across our parking lot and through our front door. He’s a smiley – and normally very agile – man with a positive outlook on life, but we [...]

One of the cruelest hopes we may experience in life is the irrational thought that a loved one who is dead may one day return. When your guard is down, in defiance of reality, you fantasize that [...]

“Today this man is getting his voting rights back.” My friend Maurice Harris remembers the day he heard a judge make that pronouncement. It was 2008, and Maurice had paid $500 for the cost of [...]

We all know a 180 when we see one. Those transformations that literally mean going in the opposite direction, that figuratively mean you have turned your life around. From night to day, from a [...]

The hard fact is, some people commit multiple crimes and serve more than one sentence, before getting it right. Aren’t they just as human as the rest of us? How rare it is for humans to [...]

This past week saw record-breaking weather conditions in Nashville. The snow, ice and frigid temps caused Tennessee’s governor to declare a State of Emergency, and our Mayor urged drivers [...]

Nashville, like many American metropolises, turned its back on its river for years. Never mind that the Cumberland cut a deep and wide swath through the central city. Never mind that it was an [...]

It is the stuff of TV drama: a straight-laced, hard-working, law-abiding man reaches a tipping point — he sees that, in the face of terminal illness and the seemingly insurmountable need to [...]