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Business, Community Leaders Testify to Importance of Getting Ex-Offenders Back Into Society
By sungazette.net - Scott McCaffrey
Published: 04/05/2013

VIRGINIA - To the outside world, Barbara Harrison had it all together: A good job in the real estate industry and a stable family life.

But some unfortunate choices led her down a path of drug addiction and into the firm grip of incarceration.

“It got to the point that I could not deal with myself any more,” Harrison told a crowd of several hundred at the April 4 “Second Chance Breakfast” sponsored by Offender Aid & Restoration (OAR).

By the time she arrived at OAR’s doors to seek help, “I was frustrated, angry and unable to find a job,” she said at the forum, held at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel.

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