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Returning Citizens: Life Beyond Incarceration
Never Going Back
Season 1
Episode 106
Susan Burton has helped guide thousands of women in transition from prison back to life in their community through A New Way of Life, which provides women assistance with housing and social and legal issues. Ardella’s House, founded by Tonie Willis, offers women a safe refuge, help with employment, family reunification, counseling, peer-to-peer mentoring and a place to be again.
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Disgraced Ex-Philly DA finds redemption by advocating for returning citizens.
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Returning citizen entrepreneurs create businesses and take hold of their destinies.
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A store owner hires returning citizens to work in stores that serve their neighborhoods.
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Sentenced as teens, then freed by the Supreme Court, inmates tell their truths.
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Formerly incarcerated citizens learn useful new skills and creative pride.