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  July 15, 2018 Quartz

  Airbnb is Grappling With How to Treat People with Criminal Convictions

  Marlon Peterson - a social justice activist who was formerly incarcerated - questions Airbnb’s use of background checks to ban those with criminal convictions. In conversations with Quartz, the company clarified some of the details of its policy.

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  July 11, 2018 MetroFocus

  MetroFocus Features Youth Empowerment Television

  WNET Channel 13's public affairs program, MetroFocus, featured the Youth Empowerment Television program at The Fortune Society.

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  July 06, 2018 Gotham Gazette

  De Blasio ‘Jails to Jobs’ Program Launches

  Within the past year, the city government's “Jails to Jobs Initiative,” has mobilized the Osborne Association, the Fortune Society, and six other incarceration-services organizations — Samaritan Daytop Village, Fedcap, Housing Works, Friends of Island Academy, the Women’s Prison Association, and the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College — to provide short-term transitional employment to every individual leaving a city jail after serving a sentence.

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  July 01, 2018 The Wall Street Journal

  Tracy Morgan: ‘It’s All Love’ in His Old Brooklyn Neighborhood

  Tracy Morgan's television series, “The Last O.G.,” centers around the adjustments his character, Tray Barker, must make when he is released from prison after 15 years. He spent a recent morning walking around his old neighborhood in Brooklyn and visiting The Fortune Society in Queens.

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  June 25, 2018 Times Ledger

  The Fortune Society Receives Grant to Improve Health Services for People Released from Rikers

  The Fortune Society has launched a new program to prevent people released from Rikers Island from relapsing into substance use. Fortune’s Connections to Care Program has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the OneCity Health Innovation Fund to implement its project, which connects these individuals with primary health care and holistic support services in the community.

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