I would like to help women who went to prison for nonviolent crimes for short
sentences and did nothing but sit in a cell for 3 - 6 months, come out with
no money, no job, no home, no skills. Without a little help they are bound to
go right back.
If there are in prison only a short time, they do not get to take advantage
of any type of education. If they aren't there for drugs, they get no
counseling. If they aren't pregnant, they get little or no health care.
I would like a small halfway house situation where the women can help share
household duties, share rides, perhaps even have a business they can work in
such as baking goods to sell at flea market or growing herbs, making soap,
anything to help with expenses.
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME GET STARTED?
THANKS
I have also had the same thoughts although fleeting. I have a prior felony
conviction that has left me jobless other than jobs acquired through pure
networking of my own and the fact that these people were willing to realize
that they were concerned with tomorrow rather than the yesterdays. I would
actually like to be a part of something exactly like you are speaking of but
from what I can tell it will never happen, at least in my home
state...Indiana a person with a felony conviction (in any state) is not even
allowed to obtain a bartenders permit. Guess I shouldn't feel bad Washington
is the ONLY other state this way. Anyway sorry about the rant and if there is
anything that I can do to help let me know I am TOTALLY for rehabilitation of
the persons not the prisons.
acerbusiness83 | Window Shopper | 9/5/2012 - 2:31 pm
conviction that has left me jobless other than jobs acquired through pure
networking of my own and the fact that these people were willing to realize
that they were concerned with tomorrow rather than the yesterdays. I would
actually like to be a part of something exactly like you are speaking of but
from what I can tell it will never happen, at least in my home
state...Indiana a person with a felony conviction (in any state) is not even
allowed to obtain a bartenders permit. Guess I shouldn't feel bad Washington
is the ONLY other state this way. Anyway sorry about the rant and if there is
anything that I can do to help let me know I am TOTALLY for rehabilitation of
the persons not the prisons.
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