I'm really sorry to hear that your company's good work is coming to an end. I wish you all the best in your future career and I hope you are able to find new ways to help address the needs of this community of people.
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#22The larger fight continues, to treat people who have been to prison with dignity and respect.
Perhaps put fewer people in prison to start with
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#23Can the title be changed to be less clickbaity? Reads like HN is shutting down
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#24Sorry to hear about this. It seems like a wonderful altruistic service. Were you able to apply for PPP (and other covid related) loans / grants? I feel like of all businesses, yours should have been easy to get something like that.
Yes, we did get some PPP money, and it sustained us for some time, but it dried up quickly. Thanks for your comment and your kind words.
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#25Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.
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#26I'm not even from the US but props to you man. I know some words from random internet people don't fix the situation but to me you're an inspiration. Hopefully, some day, with some more money, wiser and with skills that I'm lacking, I can make a company to solve a real problem like you did.
It's sad that the amount of money floating around doesn't pour into a company like yours.
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#27> we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.
Can you clarify: Were the employees of your 70MR organization hesitant to return to work and quitting after a few days? Or were the people who requested your services quitting jobs several days after placement?
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#28Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.
Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.
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#29Wow. Thanks for sharing. Congrats on your personal story of redemption, and for all the good you've done for others. I'm impressed and moved. Agreed w others here, recommend hibernation if possible.
On a recidivism-related tangent, a close friend of mine runs a nonprofit called "Guitars Behind Bars" -- https://guitarsbehindbars.com -- which does like it says on the tin, providing instruments and a musical outlet to convicts. It's had profound positive effects on the inmates who've participated (and their jailers/wardens, too). Bringing it up here bc stories about helping ex-convicts don't often feature on the HN front page.
Power to you, Richard. Keep fighting the good fight, and thank you for being a light for others.
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#30> When it hit in force in March 2020, companies made wholesale terminations of nearly all our people, and continued their halt in hiring for two years.
Is this because the people you were representing were mostly in sectors affected by the pandemic (travel, restaurant, etc), or were they were mostly "contingent workforce" jobs that are first to be cut?