Lennie Speer is an ex-offender who spent a year and a half in Holloway.
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After getting released from prison, an ex-offender has to sign up for his state's sex offender registry.
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Opponents say ex-offender friendly initiatives, like "ban the box" or "fair chance hiring," come along with unintended consequences.
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More than 60% of employers say they would "probably not" or "definitely not" be willing to hire an ex-offender.
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It doesn't make headlines when an ex-offender gets a job, supports his family and becomes a responsible member of society.
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A number of other states are debating ex-offender voting rights and other opportunities to expand participation in the democratic process.
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Better security systems make mass disturbances less likely, reckons the same ex-offender, but concerns are growing that officers will be murdered.
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It doesn't make headlines when an ex-offender gets a job, supports his family, and becomes a responsible member of the community.
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Bonds summed up the ex-offender employment problem with an anecdote from "The Shawshank Redemption," the 1994 drama set in a tough prison.
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Leaders of groups such as the Chicago-based Voices of the Ex-Offender link mass unemployment among formerly incarcerated African-American men to immigration.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched their Let People Vote Campaign, which aims to end ex-offender voter suppression in Florida and nine other states.
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They created a platform of political demands from the ex-offender community, and staged a forum where newly registered voters could ask questions of candidates for mayor.
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Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order that restored voting rights to every ex-offender who had completed his or her sentence and been released from supervised probation or parole.
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James Ford was convicted of murdering 21-year-old Amanda Champion in 2004, and ex-offender Marc Conway now works as a policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust.
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There's no federal policy for ex-offender disenfranchisement, which means states are able to make their own rules when it comes to keeping ex-offenders from ever casting a ballot.
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Amongst them were James Ford, convicted of murdering 21-year-old Amanda Champion in 2004, and ex-offender Marc Conway, now working as a policy officer for the Prison Reform Trust.
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"Voting gives me the ability to decide how money is spent in my city and state," Nicole Hanson, an ex-offender who advocated for the change in law in Maryland, told Refinery553.
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Roughly 218 million Americans were barred from voting in the last presidential election due to ex-offender disenfranchisement - stripping voting rights from citizens otherwise eligible to vote due to conviction of a criminal offense.
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"Finding meaningful work is the single most important factor in keeping an ex-offender on the straight and narrow," said David Safavian, the deputy director for the American Conservative Union's Nolan Center for Justice.
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That's consistent with a study by the RAND Institute, which found that 59 percent of employers would consider an ex-offender with one conviction if they were given an incentive through a tax credit, which they are offered under federal law.
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Another set of questions center on how likely it is that a person with a past conviction will commit another violent act, as well as identifying at what point an ex-offender should once be considered part of the general population.
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They also incorporate other data sets allowing them to estimate the size of the ex-offender and jailed populations so they can add them to the prisoner population they describe and see the full reach of the criminal justice system across the income scale.
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Part-time public defenders in New Orleans are effectively limited to seven minutes per case on average This is not a theoretical: In previous cases, parole and pardon decisions have led to an ex-offender getting out of prison and committing another crime, leading to public outrage.
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But the biggest difference-maker is if employers can recover staffing-agency fees they pay to find workers who don't stick with the job, or get the agencies to find them a replacement worker for free if they take a chance on an ex-offender who doesn't work out.
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The Basic Caring Communities scheme is a resettlement programme for ex- offenders. It involves a group of volunteers (often motivated by their faith) who meet regularly with the ex-offender and help him or her making a fresh start in their life. One volunteer calls the ex-offender every day on the phone to discuss how things are going.
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These include: urban children and youth; the incarcerated and ex- offender; the homeless; individuals living with HIV/AIDS; the developmentally disabled; refugee and immigrant populations; the elderly and children; substance abusers; and veterans.
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As a result, individuals who have been convicted of a designated offence at any time after 2001, and relocate to Ontario, are obligated to register for a period of at least 10 years. The registration period begins on the day the ex-offender relocates to Ontario.
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Circles of Support and Accountability are based on restorative justice principles. Each circle involves 4-6 trained volunteers from the community, forming the inner circle around an ex-offender (the "core member"). That circle receives support and training from professionals, who form the outer circle. The inner circle meets regularly to facilitate the core member's practical needs (i.e.
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On October 8, 2015, during an altercation, Stone was stabbed by a California ex-offender, James Tran, 28, in downtown Sacramento. He was rushed to UC Davis Medical Center and was released from the hospital on October 15. There was an argument which subsided and the groups left separately. Tran stabbed him multiple times in the back with a knife.
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Each year, the Missouri Department of Corrections co-sponsors a Missouri Reentry Conference held in Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach. The conference, which began in 2005, features speakers and workshops concerning issues surrounding Missouri’s ex-offender population. The conferences average over 300 attendees annually. The intent of the conference is to provide high- quality education and networking opportunities for corrections professionals and community-based partners involved in the state’s reentry process.
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After leaving the party in 1974, Howard returned to Tennessee. In Memphis, he served on the boards of directors of several African American progressive educational institutions. In 2001, Howard self-published his memoir, Panther on the Prowl, covering the rise and fall of the Black Panthers. In 2003, he was a coordinator for the All of Us or None Ex-Offender Program, and also was a member of the Millions for Reparations committee.
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Community Resources for Justice is a Massachusetts-based organization that has worked for over 130 years in social justice in issues like ex-offender re- entry, prison conditions, public safety, and crime prevention. CRJ was formed through the merger of several older organizations in the Boston and New England area, and while most of its work today is focused in the northeastern United States, CRJ is also engaged in work in other states around the nation.
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Redd has spoken promoting social change at unionizing drives, worker and day labor rights, living wage and election campaigns, anti-war and disarmament protests, anti-police brutality rallies, civil rights and ex-offender re-enfranchisement forums, and death penalty vigils. Redd and Sincere Seven members spoke at the Glenmary Commission on Justice, Gathering 2002. Redd frequently addressed East Knoxville concerns at Knoxville City Council meetings. He received several civic and community commendations and honors, including Appalshop's Carpetbag Theatre production about S7.
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The first Eighteen Chefs outlet was opened in 2007, at Eastpoint Mall, by an ex- offender and former drug addict Benny Se Teo, who had had difficulty finding a job. While on an internship with Jamie Oliver he heard about the Fifteen Foundation. He started Eighteen Chefs along similar lines, and is now the director of the company in 2015. Three of the outlets, located at Yishun, Tiong Bahru and Buona Vista were closed in 2009 because of financial losses.
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In early 2019, Gateway Church announced it was starting a ministry inside the Coffield Unit, the largest prison in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It is open to minimum security inmates (and, with special permission, medium security inmates) but all inmates may obtain church materials. The church also ministers at the Estes Unit outside of Venus. Stephen Wilson, an ex-offender who earned his masters from Liberty University and has ministered in prisons previously, serves as the leader of both of these prison efforts.
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Angelo "Skip" Saviano is a Republican and a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 77th district from 1993 to 2012. He served on seven committees: Registration and Regulation; Committee of the Whole; Aging; Appropriations-Public Safety; Executive; Public Utilities; and Ex-Offender and Reentry Subcommittee. He is currently the Village President of Elmwood Park, a large municipality in northwest Cook County. In 2015, Saviano signed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in favor of same-sex marriage.
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Wale is a 2018 British short film written and directed by Barnaby Blackburn. The film, starring Jamie Sives, Raphel Famotibe, Roger Nsengiyumva and Clare Perkins, is a social-realist thriller about an ex-offender trying to ply his trade as a mechanic who is deceived by a client and framed for murder over the course of a single horrific night. It was Blackburn's debut film. The film deals with issues of racial discrimination, social injustice and the frustrations of young people trying to reimagine themselves in London.
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Libraries are important not only during the term of a prisoner's incarceration but also when the prisoner is released back into society. This is especially true of prisoners of who have spent a long time being incarcerated, as public libraries offer beneficial services. The Hartford Public Library, for example, offers ex-offender resources that include reentry and support services. Their website offers different links and resource information from employment help to family counseling. The Denver Public Library even offers to “sign off” on the time that ex-offenders spend in classes offered in job searching.
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It aims to reduce re-offending and enable the ex-offender to integrate into society in a healthy way. In 2007-8, the initiative has been passed to Circles.uk, and while Quakers may continue to be involved as volunteers, the organisation has shifted into a new phase as an emerging national network of volunteers of all faiths and none. Quaker Prison Ministers: work within multi-faith prison chaplaincy teams to offer spiritual support and friendship to prisoners of all faiths and none. Quaker Housing Trust: is Britain Yearly Meeting’s own housing charity.
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Create is a UK creative arts charity (registered charity number 1099733) based in London, which offers creative workshops and arts experiences led by professional artists in community settings, schools, prisons and hospitals. The charity works with seven priority groups: young patients; disabled children and adults; young and adult carers; schoolchildren (and their teachers) in areas of deprivation; vulnerable older people; young and adult offenders (and their families); and marginalised children and adults (including homeless people and refugees). Patrons include: choreographer/director Sir Matthew Bourne OBE, writer Esther Freud, musician Dame Evelyn Glennie, composer/TV presenter Howard Goodall CBE, Royal Academician Ken Howard OBE, Guardian columnist/ex-offender Erwin James and pianist Nicholas McCarthy.
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Their primary focus, as described on the group's website, is "to assist ex-offenders and their families become productive members of society by meeting both their spiritual and physical needs." Exodus Ministries claims three primary objectives: reducing the number of ex- offenders who become homeless and unemployed, as well as the number of those who return to a life of crime and eventually end up back in prison; helping ex-offenders obtain employment and managing their finances so they can re- establish a positive, self-sufficient lifestyle; and reuniting ex-offenders with their families and teaching them the life skills necessary for daily living through counseling and training services. In at least one notable case in 1996, Exodus Ministries rendered assistance to a non-ex-offender in need.
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The complex of 54 duplexes and six family homes is operated by Matthew 25 Ministries, an organization with the stated goal of providing prison aftercare. (The name is a reference is to the passage Matthew 25:36-40 in the Bible which says: "I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me..." "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me" (English Standard Version).) According to their Web site, there is no religious discrimination; non-Christians are just as welcome. The Executive Director in 2017 is Ted Rodarm, an ex-offender. Also according to the organization's web site, they do not accept violent offenders or serial offenders, nor minister to pedophiles, which they define as "someone who can only become sexually aroused by a child".
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