Michigan Clears Criminal Records for Thousands of Low-Level, Nonviolent Offenders-'Meaningful 2nd Chances'
Criminal justice reforms in Michigan took effect, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside.
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Instead of Responding With Cops, Denver Sends Health Care Teams to Non-Criminal Calls - and It's Already Saving Lives
Denver is looking at reducing officer conflict with mental health, homeless, and trespassing cases going to a social worker response team.
If You Buy a Sapling For This Rainforest, Money Also Helps Turn Illegal Loggers into Forest Guardians
Trailblazing charity Health In Harmony lets you offset your carbon footprint while also ending deforestation in areas most impacted by illegal logging.
Kentucky Tattoo Parlor is Creatively Covering Up Hate Tattoos For Free
The tattoo parlor, Gallery X Art Collective in Murray, Kentucky, has offered to cover up any racist, hateful, or gang-related tattoos free of charge.
They Recycle Electronics - And People's Lives - By Giving Ex-Felons Good Jobs to Imagine a Better World
Brightmark and RecycleForce have partnered to train ex-felons for good jobs in recycling electronics, helping them better their lives and the world.
Former Prisoners Turn Waste Into Beautiful Furniture, Re-Building Their Lives At the Same Time
Formerly-incarcerated people make clever furniture out of recycled construction waste at Formr, where pieces range from $89 to $500.
Baking Bad: Ex-Cons Are Mentored as Bakers and Now Their Bread is in the Best Restaurants
A Scottish bakery teaches ex-cons new schools, and it's providing bread to some of the country's poshest restaurants.
Maya Angelou Program Turns Imprisoned Teens Into 'Scholars'
Teenagers who are locked up are still entitled to an education. Near Washington, DC a juvenile program for incarcerated youth has turned itself around, much like some of the inmates, thanks to poet, Maya Angelou. 60 teenagers study at the juvenile correctional center, amid barbed wire and guards, within the gleaming new walls of the Maya Angelou Academy. Where there once were shackles and beatings, now there is emotional as well as intellectual growth for the inmates, who are called scholars.
Farming at Leavenworth Prison Trains Inmates, Feeds Needy
A fresh foods program at the Leavenworth Penitentiary has inmates growing a quarter million pounds of produce every year, which produces free healthy food for them, and more than 80,000 pounds in donations to help feed the needy throughout Kansas City.
Unable to Find Housing After His Historic Prison Release, Kim Kardashian Offers to Pay 5 Years of His Rent
Say what you want about Kim Kardashian, but her recent offer of assistance to a former inmate is just one more step in her campaign for justice reform.
Hula Dancing is Proving to Be an Unlikely Source of Reform for Male Prisoners
Though hula dancing is usually associated with grass skirts and dashboard figurines, these male inmates have found spiritual relief in the Hawai'ian art.
Cuba Lifting Hated Travel Restrictions
Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, making it easier for its citizens to leave the communist-ruled island in the first major reform to its migration policies in half a century.
Barclays Boss: Sign on to New Ethics or Leave
Barclays boss Antony Jenkins has notified the bank's 140,000 employees of a new code of conduct. Even bonuses for 2012 will be assessed against the new Purpose and Values criteria.
Shattering Stereotypes: Islamic Militant Extremists
Hassan Karatiya is a former Islamic militant in the Egyptian underground who traded in his bullets and bombs for a shot at success. He was offered a small business loan to lure him back to mainstream society in exchange for a promise to abstain from violence.
Artists Spark Real Reform in Teens, Rally for Alternative to Prison in Virginia
Imprisoned youth across Virginia have been given a creative voice after mentoring from Richmond artists and support from advocates for justice reform.
Prison Program Produces Business Savvy Inmates And Huge Success Rates
The Houston based Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) believes that helping inmates prepare to start their own businesses when they leave prison will reduce the likelihood that they will end up behind bars again. And the program's statistics show it is working extremely well.
Toastmasters Reforms Inmates While They Are in Prison
I recommended to a self-help group of inmates at a Louisiana prison in DeQuincy that they start a Toastmasters club in the prison. Out of 60 inmate Toastmasters who had been released from prison from 1986-1991, not one had been re-arrested.
Why Can't This Grandma Stay Out of Prison?
Grandmas, by their very nature, don't want trouble. But 81-year-old SuEllen Fried of Prairie Village, Kansas, has defied that stereotype and brought her sweet, soft touch to prisoners behind the razor-wire walls for over 30 years. I am addicted to personal transformation, she told CBS's Steve Hartman. Fried started coming to Lansing Correctional around 1980 for what she thought would be a little volunteer work, but ended up committed to these guys — for life.
Mom Will Sell Family Heirlooms to Help Son's Killers
A mother whose son was stabbed to death by four members of a hooded gang plans to sell her family heirlooms to help his killers. Fatemah Golmakani, 56, also said she wants to "tell them that someone loves them".
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