by Danny | Apr 18, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Alternative to Incarceration, Reentry
Grew up eye-shot of La Tuna, Federal Correctional Institution, in Vinton, Texas. Living close enough to be part of the environment, I wondered what it was like to be on the inside. Pushing several years into the future, I became a 16-year old outfielder with a family...
by Danny | Apr 11, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Reentry, Second Chance
Writing provided by Duck who spent 13 years incarcerated; now finding a home as contributor and facilitator/trainer with 2nd Chance University, a non-profit dedicated to those who have stumbled. For those who have been (or are currently) justice-involved, being...
by Danny | Apr 5, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Alternative to Incarceration, Reentry, Second Chance, Youth Empowerment
Being a non-profit working with young and old adults involved within the criminal justice system, we hear the term Trauma Informed Care more often than not. As a matter of fact, the term, especially when dealing with alternatives to incarceration, our criminal justice...
by Danny | Apr 3, 2018 | Prison, Reentry, Release
Last time we stopped abruptly in the middle of Steven’s story, time to check out how his CHE Quotient — not too worry, for those not in the CHE Quotient know, you will soon. Looking at the numbers, Steven had no chance…but you can’t always bet on the numbers… What...
by Danny | Mar 30, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Inmate
Statistics and numbers have their uses, mostly depending upon the agenda spinners manipulating them. While numbers reveal much about a particular situation, the fact remains, they can also obscure things, creating more of a head-scratching event than a cerebral...