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| Changed Choices Gives One Woman A Second Chance |
| By wfae.org - Tasnim Shamma |
| Published: 05/02/2013 |
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NORTH CAROLINA - Nationally, more than a quarter of all women who end up in prison, return to prison. A local nonprofit, Changed Choices, works to change that by providing support to female offenders from when they first enter prison and follows them even after they leave. After nearly a decade of work, only four percent of its clients have returned to prison. Candice Ikard is hard at work behind a coffee and food stand at the Children & Family Services Center in Uptown Charlotte. Candice has come a long way. Six years ago, she was selling crack-cocaine. It's a career path that had started a decade earlier in Statesville. "Pretty much, I took care of myself, that's how it was," Ikard says. "So I worked a couple of jobs under the table. Kinda-sorta didn't make ends meet, umm … so I chose to start selling drugs at 14." Read More. |
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