GIVING BACK TO A SECOND CHANCE IN LIFE
SECOND CHANCE IN LIFE!
?As an entrepreneur when I started Queen City Metal Recycling we put a second chance program in place to give people the opportunity who have served their time to start a new beginning. As owners and businesses we continue to label and put people in a Pandora's box to be set up for failure over and over how can anyone make a fresh start.
An inmate receives upon release anywhere from 75 to a few hundred dollars depending on amount of time they have been sentenced. Then inmates ...are told to get a place to live but almost all places require a background check first and last months rent and security deposit and almost all rental facilities will not rent with bad credit no credit or incarceration or felony charges. Then we expect them to find a job in 30 days and on the application the first question are have you ever been convicted of a crime or a felony. Not everybody that is incarcerated get out with family and friends or has an opportunity to go to a halfway house. How can we expect men and women to thrive and continue to go on to be pro active community partners when we set them up for failure. The reason people wonder why people go back to prison rates are so high. We have to change the behaviors and give people the opportunity if they serve their time they paid their price for their crime it's not for us to continue to label and put this scarlet letter on them for the rest of their life to not be able to make a change. Not everyone has the opportunity to be in a home with loving parents and stability or assistance and mental health resources. I hope that everyone takes the chance to read and share this because it only takes one life to change to make a difference in the world.
ReEnergize World
5 年You’re so welcome. If we all came together imagine what we could do as a team.
Chief Executive Officer at Overcometh Ministry - Non Profit
5 年Thank u Ms. Coffino, well spoken. Yes the label that one who have serve time being incarcerated. Society treatment as can not take a chance or help u because. Instead of do not want the mistake repeated, then back into the system again. Like a revolving door, we wonder why they go back doing what knows best ,crime again. Agree their will b some don't reach. What about the ones crying out to reach. This ministry trying to start up,( Overcometh Ministry)along with what u already making an impact. Pray we , u, everyone else address , come up with solutions on a big problem facing now. What we can do as a ministry, by help of good Lord. Will try 2 help. Again thank u for making an impact. Hope to help u n someway, please contact. John L. Chisholm???????????????????
CEO
7 年I believe some do and some do not. Any given is also one taken. Giving opportunity to one is a example of moving life is positive mannerisms. Some seek to gain from the lack of. In placements of operations working to bettering both a company and reputation . People do deserve second chances. I personally have given them to a select few... and well ... there living lives as they see fit.