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Returning Citizens: Life Beyond Incarceration
The Simple Dignity of Work
Season 1
Episode 103
Jeff Brown runs grocery stores in urban “food deserts,” neighborhoods where access to fresh, healthy food is in short supply. For his workforce, he turned to an unexpected labor population: ex-convicts who needed work in the communities that form his customer base. "In general, they are grateful for the chance… they just want to take care of themselves and their families,” says Brown.
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Renowned activist Susan Burton visits a safe refuge for formerly incarcerated women.
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Disgraced Ex-Philly DA finds redemption by advocating for returning citizens.
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Returning citizen entrepreneurs create businesses and take hold of their destinies.
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Sentenced as teens, then freed by the Supreme Court, inmates tell their truths.
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Formerly incarcerated citizens learn useful new skills and creative pride.