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Organizations Learn Cheap Tattoo Removal to Help Inmates Get Jobs
This nonprofit is teaching organizations how to provide cheap tattoo removal for ex-convicts in need of a fresh start.
Inmates Reduce Sentence by Growing Thriving Gardens for Charity
With all their produce going to charities helping the poor, these Brazilian inmates have created a great green garden of life to benefit their community.
Crops Grown on Barge Lets Folks in NYC Pick Free Food From Docks
If people can’t get to a neighborhood garden, this group promises to bring the garden to them.
A project called Swale has built an “edible forrest”...
Tim Robbins Has Prison Drama Class That Cuts Recidivism in Half
Actor Tim Robbins has dramatically cut repeat offender rates for prisoners who take his acting class behind bars.
Six out of every 10 inmates in...
Artists Spark Real Reform in Teens, Rally for Alternative to Prison in Virginia
Hundreds of incarcerated kids were given hope for a better future with an unexpected form of rehabilitation – art.
Painters, writers, DJs, and musicians worked...
Woman Helps Others Break Cycle of Prison She Endured (WATCH)
A woman who says she spent 12 years being “recycled” in and out of the prison system has turned it all around to help...
Quiet Time Program Brings Radical Improvement To Schools Worldwide
There are hundreds of rowdy at-risk youth in low-income schools that face higher rates of anxiety, stress, and violence in their lives, but when...
Guess Who May Show Up At Tom Hanks-themed School Homecoming?
He saved Private Ryan, cracked the Da Vinci Code, brought a crippled spaceship back from the moon, and spent years on a desert island...
“The Rock” is Proud of the “Better Men” Graduating from Prison Boot Camp
Life in jail, or six months at camp training to become a better person?
For inmates at the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center in...
California Restores Voting Rights for 60,000 Former Felons
A court settlement has just given 60,000 felony offenders the right to vote again in California.
They all committed low-level offenses and were released, placed...
Inmates Grow Along With the Gardens They Tend Behind Bars
When a correction officer set out a small garden at the prison where he worked, he may have planted the seeds of a brighter...
Prison Program Produces Business Savvy Inmates And Huge Success Rates
The Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) believes that helping inmates prepare to start their own businesses when they leave prison will reduce the likelihood...
Musician Gives Concerts, Guitars to Inmates
Wayne Kramer and his musician friends have been in and out of jails and prisons across the United States. They are helping to change lives through his...
Ex-con Becomes an Honorary Police Officer
At one time he was considered one of the most notorious jewel thieves in the United States. He spent 11 years in some of...
Laughter is Contagious – Even in the Israeli Knesset
While making a speech in front of the Israeli parliament, the education minister burst into a laughing fit that went viral on Tuesday on...
Hero of the Year: Nepalese Woman Frees Children Who Live With Incarcerated Parents
Pushpa Basnet, a Nepalese woman who runs a home for children so they don't have to live behind bars with their incarcerated parents, was...
Decriminalize Drug Use, Say Experts After Six-year Study
A six-year study of Britain's drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decriminalization.
The report...
The Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012, An Amazing Group
For their extraordinary efforts to help change the world and better the lives of others, 10 everyday people will receive $50,000 and a chance...
Convicted Killers Help Care for Fellow Inmates With Dementia
Imprisoned felons in Louisiana and California are being given an extraordinary opportunity to show care and compassion for fellow inmates. As the numbers of...
US Delegation Remembers Holocaust Hero Wallenberg in Hungary
On a chilly day, a United States Congressional delegation and other officials laid a wreath at the Budapest monument to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg,...