Browsing: Prisoner Reentry

No matter how many “good conduct” testimonials they get, ex-incarcerees are still defined by the worst things they’ve done—and by language that refuses to acknowledge the possibility of personal growth and individual change, writes the Deputy CEO of the Fortune Society.  

Boudin, a member of the radical Weather Underground, was imprisoned for 22 years for her role in the fatal 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck. The mother of current San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, she had worked in programs helping ex-incarcerees reenter civilian life after her release on parole.