The Idaho Botanical Garden has a long connection to corrections. East Boise Community Reentry Center is an all-female reentry center for low-custody inmates. It's located next to the Old Penitentiary, which is adjacent to the garden. Idaho Botanical Garden and the reentry center have a …
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A Mural Program Helps Previously Incarcerated Women Return To Life
Earlier in 2021, Rasheeda Bagwell joined the Philadelphia-based nonprofit Mural Arts Philadelphia through its Restorative Justice Program to lead a new pilot project: The Women’s Reentry Program. "Modeled after the nonprofit’s widely successful Guild Program — a reentry apprenticeship for …
Give Women a Second Chance—Our Economy Depends on It | Opinion
April marks Second Chance Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of the barriers that many justice-impacted individuals face when reentering society and to highlight policy solutions that could ensure returning citizens have a fair opportunity to reach their full potential. It also marks two full …