Wilder Youth Development & Wayne Halfway House will also partner with Persevere on the program By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT For many troubled teens, a sentence to juvie feels like a sentence to fail. Statistically speaking — it is. 80-percent of juvenile offenders end up back behind bars within three years, less than 2-percent ever enroll […]
By Governor Gavin Newsom Reimagined facility will be renamed “San Quentin Rehabilitation Center” and will prioritize rehabilitation and education programs to strengthen public safety World-renowned experts to serve on new advisory group to steer transformation SAN QUENTIN – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom, alongside state legislators, survivors of crime and victim advocates, and civil rights leaders,
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From Napa Valley Register By AARON MORRISON Associated Press Mar 5, 2023 Updated Apr 10, 2023 CHOWCHILLA — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half of his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he arrived. He has taken courses in creative
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Dig Deep Farms, a nonprofit run through Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, tackles food insecurity, grows local produce and provides on-the-job training for parolees. BY: By DYLAN BOUSCHER | Bay Area News Group Read the article.
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From Prison Policy Initiative by Leah Wang, September 2, 2022 The state prison experience: Too much drudgery, not enough opportunity An underutilized government dataset goes deep into daily life in state prisons — including work assignments, programming, and discipline — revealing lost opportunities for rehabilitation, education, and hope… Read the article.
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By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT Inmate participants will earn a full-stack developer certification at the end of the 12-month program Nearly half of all people released from prison in Tennessee are back behind bars within three years. But training programs like Persevere help break that cycle and prepare people for successful lives outside of prison… Read
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National Launch Event at SXSW on March 11 Includes Major U.S. Employment Partners Helping to Disrupt the Prison Pipeline Memphis, TN (March 11, 2022) –Persevere, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has been awarded a grant from Walmart.org. Funding will help Persevere create and build the National Institute for Unlock Potential (UP) capacity. The national institute will
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From Persevere It’s unseasonably cold in Memphis when Drew Crowe pulls into the sparsely populated parking lot in front of the towering Methodist church. Large, imposing, and sporting multiple tattoos, at first glance you’d probably expect to find Drew in a biker bar before seeing him volunteering at a church. If you’re lucky enough to
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From Persevere Giving back is part of Vant4ge’s DNA—that’s why employees are excited about the opportunity to join the Vant4ge & Persevere speaker series. Persevere is a nonprofit dedicated to educating and mentoring currently incarcerated men and women. Through programs behind prison walls, Persevere teaches inmates how to code, certifies them as full-stack developers, and
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