From Dig Boston:
When Stacey Borden exited MCI-Framingham for the final time in 2010, she was done with more than three decades of jail stints and drug use due to untreated trauma. She was determined to start a residential reentry program for women and beat the odds for the formerly incarcerated.
According to the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative, in 2018, the unemployment rate for those who return home from prison was more than 27% compared to 3.9% for the general population. Approximately 40 to 60% of people with addiction issues will relapse. And within five years of release, 76.9% of those with drug crime convictions return to prison.
Borden had developed the idea of the New Beginnings residential reentry program while walking the prison yard with one friend behind bars—Angie—who told her she’d better get herself clean and educated if she wanted to fulfill her dream. In an interview for this story, Borden repeated what Angie said that had motivated her: Change, or else you’ll do something stupid and end up in prison for life. Continue reading >>>
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