Awards provide services for at-risk youth; currently and formerly incarcerated individuals WASHINGTON – What’s next for the 600,000 people released from federal and state prisons annually, millions more leaving county and local jails, and others in danger of falling into the cycle of poverty, crime and incarceration? With the help of $64.5 million in grants…
Storm Born: The Latino Coalition in Action
Memories of Katrina inspired new local thinking about parole. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Deep South. In addition to wreaking apocalyptic physical damage, the storm killed more than 1,200 people and left thousands more displaced. At the time, Rosemary Harris Lytle was the Colorado Springs chapter president of the National Association for…