The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition has helped an estimated 30,000 former inmates return to society. Now, it's been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. 'We seem to sometimes forget that these are people's mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers.'
Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, visits with staff on Feb. 14, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. according to the Justice Department
For Desmond Meade, 55, the executive director of the coalition, helping the estimated 30,000 prisoners released in Florida every year to return to society is a personal mission to change the narrative and carve a path of redemption for people who have been incarcerated. The coalition has worked with lawmakers, policymakers and corporations as a conduit between decision-makers and returning citizens vying for a second chance. In addition to campaigning for Amendment 4 and raising funds to pay for restitution, fines and fees, the group has partnered with Google to provide digital training skills for people impacted by incarceration, as well as created bail and legal defense funds for people unjustly arrested for voting.
In 2015, Meade met Neil Volz, now the deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition , who identifies as a conservative. Volz, a former senior aide to ex-Rep. Robert W. Ney, R-Ohio, had left Congress to become a lobbyist andto conspiring to influence the Ohio congressman’s official actions corruptly. Volz finished serving his sentence in 2011. He now uses his decades of experience in politics as a community advocate to push legislation forward for the FRRC.
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