BUILDING PEOPLE, NOT PRISONS.
We believe in the power of people to change. We help individuals with justice involvement rebuild their lives through innovative services and advocacy.
TRANSFORMING LIVES AND ADVANCING SYSTEMIC CHANGE.
We employ a “one-stop-shop” model of service provision, offering in-house services to over 8,000 individuals with justice involvement and advocate for alternatives to incarceration.
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You can help promote successful reentry from incarceration and promote a fair, humane, and truly rehabilitative justice system.
The Fortune Society’s mission is to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.
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April is National Fair Housing Month. Take action and support @FairHousing_NYC today by signing the ... petition and reaching out to your council members:
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TOMORROW: Join Deputy Public Advocate @Xamayla_Rose, @thefortunesoc's @AAWardSR1, @lov_unity's ... @DonnaHylton, and @ccdworldwide's Dr. Divine Pryor to discuss the need to fully restore the right of New Yorkers with felonies and on parole to vote.
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With NY sending more people to prison for technical parole violations than any other state; it is ... critical that #LessIsMoreNY becomes law in 2021.
Join us TODAY at 11:30am for a #LessIsMoreNY Day of Action w/ the Alternatives to Incarceration Coalition: http://bit.ly/LIMNY-ACTION
Last night, Fortune community member Hilton N. Webb, Jr was interviewed by @CBSNewYork:
“Prisons ... are where the mentally ill are put. You put them in an environment where they have mental health services and an opportunity to get a degree, they get self-worth."
2/2 NYC leaders say a broken parole system is partly to blame for the recent rise in crime. So we got a first person look at problems with the re-entry process from prison and how it effects the entire city.
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https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/04/13/new-york-city-parole-system-hilton-webb/
NYC leaders say a broken parole system is partly to blame for the recent rise in crime. So we got a ... first person look at problems with the re-entry process from prison and how it effects the entire city. 1/2 @CBSNewYork @thefortunesoc
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/04/13/new-york-city-parole-system-hilton-webb/
Join us on MONDAY, APRIL 26th 12PM either in person in front of the New York Stock Exchange or on ... Zoom. We will be rallying to uplift women & gender expansive people on Rikers and the horrible conditions in which they suffer. Register at http://bit.ly/rally426 #WhatAboutHer