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| Ex-offenders get boost with 'trade not aid' |
| By nj.com - Ken Thorbourne |
| Published: 12/11/2013 |
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Inside a minimally furnished room on the second floor of a Martin Luther King Drive walk-up in Jersey City, women remake their lives, one bead at a time. “It means a lot for me,” Florence, a 52-year-old who was released earlier this year from the Hudson County jail in Kearny, said on a recent fall morning as she strung beads onto a thin wire. “Sometimes people have a lot of thoughts. … This work definitely gives me a focus.” The work, creating “benefit bracelets” that retail for $50 for a set of three, is also putting money in Florence’s pocket to pay for bus fare, diabetes medication and fines that many ex-offenders owe probation departments and the courts. Read More. |
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