How America Can Do More to Help Black Men Returning Home from Prison Find Jobs: Reflections on RecycleForce’s Trip to Capitol Hill

National Transitional Jobs Network Blog How America Can Do More to Help Black Men Returning Home from Prison Find Jobs: Reflections on RecycleForce's Trip to Capitol Hill by National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN) By Caitlin C. Schnur, Workforce Research and Policy Fellow  "In the summer of 2012, I had just been released from federal prison. I was staying in a halfway house and job hunting, but I really couldn't come up with any work…It's so hard to come home from prison and it shouldn't be…A couple of men […] Read more of this post National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN) | May 5, 2014 at 4:51 pm | Tags: b.more initiative, ban the box, black male achievement, black men, congress, criminal records, employment, Indiana, mass incarceration, mentor, mentorship, peer mentorship, Policy Advocacy, Prison, Reentry, returning citizens, transitional jobs, Washington D.C. | URL: http://wp.me/p102Jx-bR