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  April 05, 2017 Manhattan Times

  Relief after re-entry

  A new federal bill named for Kalief Browder, who committed suicide after incarceration on Rikers Island, is designed to improve mental health services for those re-entering society after serving jail time.

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  March 29, 2017 Newsday

  [Justice-involved individuals] leaving NYC jails will be guaranteed jobs, De Blasio says

  Every one of New York City’s estimated 8,500 [incarcerated individuals] sentenced to time in city jails will leave with guaranteed, minimum-wage, short-term jobs likes cooks, restaurant bussers, or construction flaggers under a policy by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The aim is to reduce recidivism, he said.

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  April 02, 2017 ABC7

  [Formerly incarcerated individual from Rikers] says jail was ‘huge, unmanageable’

  Inside Rikers, the 400-acre facility known to many as 'Torture Island,' is where Stanley Richards [Fortune Executive Vice President] did his time in the late 80s for robbery and drugs. "I was in solitary confinement in Rikers in cells, in dorms. It's huge, it's unmanageable - this work for me is not about work, it's personal," he says.

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  March 27, 2017 NPR

  College classes in maximum security: ‘it gives you meaning’

  More than 650,000 [incarcerated individuals] are released every year in the U.S., but no federal agency tracks the unemployment rate for this population. Experts say low reading and technological literacy, as well as reluctance among employers to hire formerly [incarcerated individuals], means many drop out of the labor force altogether.

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  March 15, 2017 Norwood News

  Bronx barriers: knowing your rights

  Leviticus Mitchell [Fortune client]’s life could have taken a different turn had he known his rights. Mitchell, who is 22, was just 14 years old when he entered the criminal justice system, arrested on a gun possession charge.

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  March 22, 2017 Forbes

  A foodpreneur uses a commercial kitchen and local CrossFit gyms to grow a Paleo startup

  Another amazing thing about working at a professional commercial kitchen is that they are involved in helping others by bringing in interns from The Fortune Society.

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