Over 10,000 formerly incarcerated Americans are released from correctional facilities every week, and many of them go back to their communities with high hopes yet little assistance. Because of this, the rate of people who recidivate after leaving prison is about 62%. Robert is one of those people who returned ...
“I can’t keep going back to jail…I have no choice but to do something different,” Walter Collins says when thinking about his journey through life. He speaks with a foresight that has been sharpened by past trauma. At 60 years old, Walter displays the same bravado as a city slick ...
A first-hand look at teams in action working to clean up the City of New Orleans. The city is partnering with organizations to focus on litter, graffiti, and light.
At CEO, we have a vision that each person returning home from incarceration will have access to a quality job and economic mobility. Even though more than 600,000 individuals return home from incarceration each year, they are largely unable to access our country’s public workforce system and the support needed ...
Joel was raised in Uptown New Orleans, the youngest of four siblings. Being the “baby boy,” as he calls himself, Joel grew up mostly with just his mother in a “crime-ridden neighborhood.” “As a kid, when I’d go outside, all I would see was crime, every day, people peddling drugs ...
