Thanks to seed money from the Illinois department of corrections,Sweet Beginnings employs 40 people a year and enjoys a recidivism rate of just 4%Reggie Davis was only nine years outmoded when he started selling drugs, before living the next three decades in and out of prison.
His story isn’t unusual in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood, or where unemployment is nearly triple the city’s average. More than one-third of households are below the poverty line,and more than half of the neighborhood’s adults have had some involvement with the criminal justice system.
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Source: theguardian.com