The Post-Incarceration Kitchen: Food-Based Community Organizing and Employment after Imprisonment

Abstract

The concept is recycle, repurpose, reuse. We've built gardens in the back, so we can teach them sustainable living and growing. The idea that something can grow from something so small. When you see the harvest, you can really reformat your mind. And if all you see is death, you'll reformat that way, too.

Corporate – Nonprofits Partnerships to Improve Social Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility

“…Although this research showed that employers were hesitant to hire Black people even without criminal records, they became more reluctant to make job offers when they were aware of known criminal history. Conviction records for Black people, then, have significant impacts on one's ability to engage in the labor market (Marek, 2018).…”