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  • Home was a nightmare, then home was prison. Finally home is now a refuge.

    Marisa Endicott

    October 21, 2021 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Home Free is a small, transitional-housing program for women who served long prison sentences for crimes against or on behalf of their abusers. A population long neglected, the women are part of a community recovering from the trauma of prison and the trauma that put them there. Giving them autonomy, in ways typical re-entry programs do not, is key to their recovery. “Home Free is the culmination of a decades-long struggle by women to be seen and supported by a system that has condemned and ignored them.”

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  • One Bay Area organization found a radical and surprisingly simple approach to helping former prisoners start over

    Marisa Endicott

    December 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Homecoming Project pays homeowners to rent their spare bedrooms to people just released from long prison sentences, providing welcoming, free, stable housing option to people whose re-entry is often hamstrung by housing instability and grim, restrictive halfway houses. Only 12 formerly incarcerated people were served in the project’s first year, but the service providing its clients with six months of housing hopes to serve as a pilot for other organizations outside the Bay Area. All 12 have jobs and six have gone on to live independently.

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