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| New program aims to help parolees rejoin society |
| By mlive.com - AP |
| Published: 08/09/2012 |
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DETROIT (AP) — After years of run-ins with police and months in jail, Jason Buley was leery of being anywhere near someone with a badge. A former inmate at the Dickerson facility in Detroit, he said he spent more time fleeing officers, not embracing them. "I didn't trust them at all," Buley, 27, said. Now, after three months in a program that lets Detroit police officers mentor parolees, Buley calls some of them his friends. With their help, he said he recently landed a packaging job and plans to attend community college this fall. Organizers said it's the first time Detroit police have worked closely in such a program with former inmates, who say it's too easy to get pulled back into crime without a little help on the outside. "This is a blessing in disguise," Buley said during a break from a recent mentoring session, wearing a beige suit — to demonstrate, he noted, how serious he is about shaping up. "It really got me on the right track." Read More. |
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