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Returning Citizens: Life Beyond Incarceration
Running the Traps
Season 1
Episode 105
Seth Williams, Philly’s first black DA, was convicted on corruption charges and served three years in prison. He’s now a community activist who calls himself “the poster child of second chances,” advocating for returning citizens and working with credible messengers to combat street gun violence.
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Renowned activist Susan Burton visits a safe refuge for formerly incarcerated women.
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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.