Communities of contradictions, embodies the full spectrum of America’s strengths and weaknesses, from block to block and door to door. Hope and despair coexist. 

We have to realize that no one gets to be the way they are in a vacuum and that the backgrounds, events, and choices that shaped their lives and brought them to prison can change by the individual, community education, and action.

Collateral consequences of conviction can make it all but impossible for some people with criminal records to truly rebuild their lives.