jail Archive

  • Radio segment on how to navigate the job search and advice on how to handle a job application post-incarceration.

    Web radio: The job search after incarceration

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Radio segment on how to navigate the job search and advice on how to handle a job application post-incarceration.

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  • The Contra Costa Times, a local news paper outside San Francisco, has an interested piece that looks at the strengths and minuses of addiction treatment programs versus prison or jail terms by profiling 32-year-old John Delino who went in and out of jail and treatment programs until he pulled himself together. But that program, under California's Proposition 36, is running out of funding.

    Addiction treatment programs v. jail time

    Posted on October 13, 2008 | No Comments
    The Contra Costa Times, a local news paper outside San Francisco, has an interested piece that looks at the strengths and minuses of addiction treatment programs versus prison or jail terms by profiling 32-year-old John Delino who went in and out of jail and treatment programs until he pulled himself together. But that program, under California's Proposition 36, is running out of funding.

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  • Thirty-year-old Emani Davis has spoken out on behalf of young people whose parents have been incarcerated since she was 14 years old. Her own father has been imprisoned for more than a decade. Meet Emani [audio:http://livesinfocus.org/files/audio/prison/emani/081007emani.mp3|titles=Emani Column 10/8/08] (Link to […]

    Introducing Emani's audio column

    Posted on October 9, 2008 | No Comments
    Thirty-year-old Emani Davis has spoken out on behalf of young people whose parents have been incarcerated since she was 14 years old. Her own father has been imprisoned for more than a decade. Meet Emani [audio:http://livesinfocus.org/files/audio/prison/emani/081007emani.mp3|titles=Emani Column 10/8/08] (Link to […]

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  • At first blush, 38-year-old Tim F. looks like he must have had an All-American childhood growing up in a small town in Delaware. Unlike his peers, he was one of the few to attend college after graduating high school. He is now a successful editor in the publishing industry. When his brother was 18, he was sentenced to prison for the crimes he committed to feed his drug addiction. He spent the next 10 years in and out of prison, but

    Anything for the next high

    Posted on September 25, 2008 | No Comments
    At first blush, 38-year-old Tim F. looks like he must have had an All-American childhood growing up in a small town in Delaware. Unlike his peers, he was one of the few to attend college after graduating high school. He is now a successful editor in the publishing industry. When his brother was 18, he was sentenced to prison for the crimes he committed to feed his drug addiction. He spent the next 10 years in and out of prison, but "more in than out," says Tim. Here is his story.

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