A Colorado organization is helping formerly incarcerated people get back on their feet
DenverWorks helps people"with barriers to employment to become self-supporting through job preparation and placement."Just over a year ago, Gardner was released from a correctional facility.
"I was literally maybe a few days out of the Denver City Jail, completely homeless, no credentials at all as far as my identity," he said."Metro PCS or Boost Mobile, they won't give you a phone without an ID now," Gardner said."Well, I need this phone to get a job and to order my documents." "Someone gets released from prison, they really don't have much to their name, they get maybe a bus pass," said Clay McCombe, site director for DenverWorks."If they're lucky [they get] a polo shirt, a pair of ugly khakis, and they're told to, you know, make it and don't break the law."
"Not giving someone a chance to earn an income in a legal way like the rest of society— you're forcing them into situations where there are crimes of desperation happening. Crimes of survival," he said.The 2022 Colorado Recidivism Study states that if people don't successfully complete their probation term “…most adults are given a jail sentence and juveniles are sentenced to either the Division of Youth Services or juvenile detention.
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