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Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Part 6: Build for the Future: Credit, Savings, and Confidence After Prison Starting over is often a day-to-day goal. But once you’ve laid the groundwork with by creating a budget and figuring out how to manage debt, it’s time to look ahead. This means building or rebuilding your credit, saving money even if it’s just [...]
Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Part 5: What Is a Scam? How to Stay Safe and Avoid Rip-Offs After Prison It’s tough enough rebuilding your life after prison without someone trying to scam you. But the truth is, scammers and rip-off artists often target people who are struggling or just starting over. They know you might be looking for work, [...]
Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Part 4: Child Support Payments and Debt After Prison—How to Tackle What You Owe If you’re out and trying to rebuild, debt can feel like a weight that never lets up. Court fees, restitution, child support, old bills, sometimes it seems like the money you make is gone before you even see it. The truth [...]
Seventeen Years Lost, A New Life Gained
George N. grew up in New York, surrounded by a supportive family and what many would call an ideal childhood. Yet, amid that stability, he often felt out of place. That gnawing sense of not fitting in would follow him into adulthood, setting the stage for choices that would change the course of his life. [...]
Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Part 3: How to Make a Budget When You’re Starting from Scratch The idea of budgeting, when you’re barely scraping by, might sound like a cruel joke. But this is when a budget matters most. You don’t need a fancy app or a complicated spreadsheet. All you need is a piece of paper, a pen, [...]
Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Part 2: Why Is Getting a Bank Account So Hard? What Do I Need to Open a Bank Account? One of the biggest surprises in life after prison is how hard it can be to open a bank account. If you’ve ever bounced checks, had an account closed, or ended up on a ChexSystems report, [...]
Money Post-release: Real-world Tips to Help You Build Your Financial Life After Prison
Introduction—What to Expect When You’re Starting Over Stepping into life after prison is a big moment. There’s no manual or no one-size-fits-all plan, but this is the start of something…
Second Chance Jobs: Where to Get Real Help and a Fresh Start
If you’ve been turned away for a job because of your record, you know how frustrating it can be. The rejection can get old fast. For most returning citizens, finding…
A Life Given Back: Frank S.’s Second Chance
Frank S. remembers his childhood as rough-edged and haunted from the beginning. Born in 1976 to a teenage mother and a barely-sixteen-year-old father, his earliest memories are marked not with cartoons and playgrounds, but with absence. His father was gone by the time Frank was three, stabbed to death after robbing a drug dealer. Loss [...]
Finding Hope: Drug and Alcohol Support for Returning Citizens
Walking out of prison can be a shock. The world has changed while you were gone, and suddenly you’re supposed to catch up and keep pace with everyone who has…
