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I just viewed an episode of "To The Contrary" on PBS Television Station as I'm getting myself together for the day just before count time, It's 5:30 AM.
On the show today, the host sat down with one of the great advocates for Women Reentry back into the community from prison.
Susan Burton is an ex-convicted woman herself, who to the look and sound, one would never imagine such an articulate and refined woman would have such a history.
Back in 1981, her son KK was killed in an automobile accident by a police officer in route. With no way to cope, she began to self medicate via the Back Street /Black Market methods which inevitably led her to being arrested & convicted for being a menace to the community, thus sentenced to what would become 20 years of on again off again recidivism.
During her interview, She went on to explain to the host Bonny, of how there was no resources in her community in order to help get people like her on the path to becoming an asset to the society via good employment, the Arts, overall higher education & housing.
However, upon her last & what would be her final release from prison, Susan was lucky enough to finally be pointed in the direction to an affluent white neighborhood just ten blocks from where she lived in which she found the wherewithal to change the trajectory of her future.
Thus, she's been paying it forward since with herself establishing 5 reentry centers of her own, modeled after that in which helped to save her. Susan Burton is a Pillar of Light in the women's struggle & fight against recidivism in our community.
She's also now the proud author of a new book entitled ...Becoming Ms. BURTON, a Story of her Life and Struggles, but most of all her Triumphs of over coming it in order to help others. request and order Becoming Ms. BURTON from www.sureshotbooks.com.
To learn more about Susan Burton's center for women, Google Search "A New Way of Life Reentry Project. To view this PBS episode, go to www.pbs.org/tothecontrary
On the show today, the host sat down with one of the great advocates for Women Reentry back into the community from prison.
Susan Burton is an ex-convicted woman herself, who to the look and sound, one would never imagine such an articulate and refined woman would have such a history.
Back in 1981, her son KK was killed in an automobile accident by a police officer in route. With no way to cope, she began to self medicate via the Back Street /Black Market methods which inevitably led her to being arrested & convicted for being a menace to the community, thus sentenced to what would become 20 years of on again off again recidivism.
During her interview, She went on to explain to the host Bonny, of how there was no resources in her community in order to help get people like her on the path to becoming an asset to the society via good employment, the Arts, overall higher education & housing.
However, upon her last & what would be her final release from prison, Susan was lucky enough to finally be pointed in the direction to an affluent white neighborhood just ten blocks from where she lived in which she found the wherewithal to change the trajectory of her future.
Thus, she's been paying it forward since with herself establishing 5 reentry centers of her own, modeled after that in which helped to save her. Susan Burton is a Pillar of Light in the women's struggle & fight against recidivism in our community.
She's also now the proud author of a new book entitled ...Becoming Ms. BURTON, a Story of her Life and Struggles, but most of all her Triumphs of over coming it in order to help others. request and order Becoming Ms. BURTON from www.sureshotbooks.com.
To learn more about Susan Burton's center for women, Google Search "A New Way of Life Reentry Project. To view this PBS episode, go to www.pbs.org/tothecontrary
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