St. Francis Starts Post-Prison Opportunity Program

Ex-convicts are among society’s most overlooked citizens, who face, upon release, a raft of realities conducive to failure: a lack of social services (or a clear path to them), a lack of education, and the challenges of being removed from a highly-controlled environment into an unregulated one.

One way to push back against these challenges is to promote opportunity programs in prisons that equip inmates with skills that will ensure success beyond bars. An August 2013 study by th