by Danny | Jan 16, 2019 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Career, Reentry
Our 18-book workshop series features justice-involved individuals. Students will come to identify with many. Shortly we will introduce Stick and Duck as well as tell their stories. I encourage readers to share thoughts and respond to their personal situations as the...
by Danny | Jan 16, 2019 | Reentry
2nd Chance University is a non-profit organization focusing on youth and adults who have stumbled. Presently we are reaching out to those with a strong desire to make their community safer by offering youths and young adults an alternative to incarceration. This is...
by Danny | Jan 10, 2019 | Inmate, Recidivism, Reentry, Second Chance
2nd Chance University has lived its design, writes about what we know concerning our years of empirical findings and shares what works by applying those years of experience living within the criminal justice system. Our proprietary methods for altering potential...
by Danny | Dec 21, 2018 | President Trump, Reentry, Second Chance
Just signed (presented by The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff): President Trump signed into law bipartisan legislation today to reform the federal prison system. The First Step Act, which passed the U.S. Senate 87-12 and the House 358-36, will usher...
by Danny | Apr 27, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Incarceration, Prison, Reentry, Second Chance
If you have not checked out the previous submission, you may feel a bit out-paced. Either way, here goes the second part as the journey to a Non Profit continues… Since 2012 I’ve expanded our non-profit to support three justice-involved categories: Youth reintegration...
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...