While Rebecca Brown served a five-year prison sentence in Florida, she decided to start a business. She owed this new perspective in large part to a non-profit – Ladies Empowerment & …
‘Dragon Fly’ las emplea desde que salen y con ese sueldo pagan la renta en una habitación compartida y todos los gastos del regreso a la sociedad. Esta y otras …
The Dragonfly Thrift Boutique in Miami gives women coming out of prison a chance to work. The initiative is backed up by LEAP, an organization that helps women re-enter society …
Powerful photographs revealing the lives of 25 women post-incarceration are on display at the Coral Gables Museum until Sept. 23. The exhibition, “The Compassion Project,” focuses on women who re-entered society after …
“I want people to open their eyes. We are people, too. We were born into society and we belong in society. Everyone deserves a second chance.” Jackie is a formerly …
To produce “The Art of Compassion,” a heartfelt fusion of art and social change at the Coral Gables Museum, Starr Sariego gathered 20 fellow photographers — most of them local, …
Opened in 2018 by the Ladies Action and Empowerment Program, the Dragonfly Thrift Boutique in Miami helps train, support, and employ women who have been recently released from prison. This …
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It’s an unlikely pairing, women prisoners and entrepreneurs, but there is an organization of women that have figured out how to mentor, change lives and make money. …
She was partway through a five-year sentence for domestic violence-related charges when she realized that something had to change in her life. Due to a particularly traumatic childhood, Brown found …
Throughout the country, the women’s prison population is on the rise. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, women’s state prison population grew 834 percent over nearly 40 years — more than double …
