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  July 15, 2018 Forbes

  Tracy Morgan And TBS Made A TV Show And Then They Did This Really Cool Thing

  As part of his new TBS show, The Last O.G., Tracy Morgan, the show and network invested substantial sums in a variety of projects in Brooklyn, and with groups closely aligned to the show's own themes of redemption, such as 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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  June 19, 2018 Forward

  A Holocaust Survivor Inspires [People With Justice Involvement]

  Hedy Pagremansky has been a long-time volunteer with the Fortune Society, where her daughter JoAnne Page is the executive director. There, she holds regular Skype sessions with Fortune participants, and uses her experience as a Holocaust survivor to provide inspiration and guidance. 

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  June 01, 2018 The Crime Report

  After Prison, Coming Home Can be the Toughest Ordeal of All

  Prison is often just a stop along the road for individuals who have been struggling with victimization all their lives, says Harvard sociologist Bruce Western. In an event for his new book about reentry, Fortune AVP of Policy, Khalil A. Cumberbatch, and other formerly incarcerated individuals provided insight on their experiences.

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