tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65102386021719787542024-03-14T04:32:02.710-04:00Our New Websites have Launched. Prisonist.org and GrantLaw.com. Links in Sidebar Below. Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-84080269882861506462021-07-15T03:55:00.004-04:002021-09-10T05:10:07.705-04:00Reuters: Jeff Grant ‘Let Go of the Outcome’: How this Felon Beat Addiction and Won Back his Law License<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1WFPPP7pSn9jvvL005lp-K14cVOWmDxWwBKQpuzgaWxQUine5kMl3mYo28Ase8veudEyNhneYmCr0deGNRn-F_GJUAGc9SSzeVkfHf6IugxcK6oDFaNiL9x7l_3qDxSQvfJXIVWwXT4/s640/Jeff+Grant+Reuters.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1WFPPP7pSn9jvvL005lp-K14cVOWmDxWwBKQpuzgaWxQUine5kMl3mYo28Ase8veudEyNhneYmCr0deGNRn-F_GJUAGc9SSzeVkfHf6IugxcK6oDFaNiL9x7l_3qDxSQvfJXIVWwXT4/s320/Jeff+Grant+Reuters.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black;">By Jenna Greene, Reprinted from <span style="color: #00ccff;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/i-let-go-outcome-how-this-felon-beat-addiction-won-back-his-law-license-2021-05-21/" style="color: #00ccff;">Reuters.com, May 21, 2021</a></span></span></i></span></span></h4><h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"> </span></span></i></span></span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When lawyers through
greed or hubris or desperation become white-collar criminals – sent to
prison and disbarred – their stories often feel like car crashes. We
gape at the wreckage of their lives and move on.</span></span></span></h4><h4><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-1"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But what happens afterwards, once they’ve done their time? How do they pick up the pieces?</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-1"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-2"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Jeffrey
Grant found a path to redemption. Seventeen years after he pleaded
guilty to fraudulently obtaining $247,000 through a 9/11 disaster relief
loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York earlier this
month reinstated his law license.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-2"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-3"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“I’m beyond excited, but I also take the responsibility very seriously,” he told me. “I’m really grateful for a second chance.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-3"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-4"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">His
journey is extraordinary, from opioid-addicted real estate lawyer to
federal prison inmate to seminary student to head of a criminal justice
nonprofit. And now, at age 64, he has come full circle to practice law
again.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-4"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-5"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But this time around, he intends to do it very differently.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-5"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-6"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">A
1981 New York Law School grad, Grant, before everything fell apart,
headed his own 20-employee firm, Jeffrey D. Grant & Associates, in
Mamaroneck, New York, serving as outside general counsel to large real
estate companies.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-6"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-7"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“I viewed life as a competition,” he said, describing himself as akin to “a paid assassin.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-7"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-8"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“It was me against everyone else, or me and my client against everyone else.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-8"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-9"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">After
a sports injury, he was prescribed the painkiller Demerol and over the
course of a decade, he became addicted to prescription opioids.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-9"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-10"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">When
he couldn’t meet payroll for his firm, he borrowed money from client
escrow accounts. With a New York state attorney grievance committee
investigation pending, he surrendered his law license on July 28, 2002.
That night, he attempted suicide by overdose, he told me.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-10"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-11"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">He wound up in rehab, embracing recovery with three meetings a day. He’s been clean and sober ever since.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-11"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-12"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">But
his past caught up with him in 2004, when he learned there was a
warrant for his arrest. “No one was more surprised than me,” Grant said.
Once informed of the charges, though, it “all came rushing back.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-12"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-13"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">In
the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he had applied for federal
financial aid and falsely claimed that his firm had an office in New
York City. In reality, he merely had an arrangement to use a conference
room on occasion in the city.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-13"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-14"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Did
he somehow convince himself this qualified? I asked. “I was a lawyer
who represented sophisticated businesspeople,” he said. “I knew better.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-14"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-15"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“There’s
no question drugs had a lot to do with it, but I can’t blame the
drugs,” he continued. “I was desperate, clutching at anything I could.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-15"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-16"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Grant
served 14 months at a low security prison in White Deer, Pennsylvania –
but it was a “real prison with bars,” he said, not one of the so-called
Club Fed camps where white-collar offenders typically do their time.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-16"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-17"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">As
a “privileged kid from the suburbs,” he said, “I had to learn hard
lessons there. But it was exactly what I needed to wipe the last smirk
off my face.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-17"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-18"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Released
in 2007, he knew he wanted to use his experiences to help others. He’s
Jewish, but a pastor he knew suggested he consider attending a seminary.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-18"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-19"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“I
didn’t know what that meant,” Grant recalled. (His first reaction: Is
that where you train to be a monk?) But he discovered that seminaries,
at least the progressive ones, “are basically places where you learn
about social justice and faith.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-19"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-20"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">In
2012, he earned a master of divinity degree from Union Theological
Seminary in New York City. He’s been baptized, but he’s also still a
Jew. “I’m a double-belonger,” he said.</span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-21"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Grant and his wife Lynn Springer went on to co-found <span style="color: #00ccff;"><a href="https://prisonist.org" style="color: #00ccff;">Progressive Prison Ministries</a></span>.
Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, they say it’s the world’s first
ministry focused on serving the white-collar justice community.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-21"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-22"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">It
includes a weekly white-collar online support group for people “who
have a desire to take responsibility for our actions and the wreckage we
caused, make amends, and move forward in new way of life centered on
hope, care, compassion, tolerance and empathy.” More than 310 people
around the country have participated, according to the <a class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8" href="https://prisonist.org/white-collar-support-group" rel="noopener" style="color: black;" target="_blank">group’s website</a>.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-22"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-23"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">From
2016 to 2019, Grant also served as the executive director of Family
ReEntry, a criminal justice nonprofit with offices and programs in eight
Connecticut cities.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-23"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-24"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Three
years ago, he began the process of getting his law license back. The
first step was taking the multi-state professional responsibility exam
and completing CLE. He also submitted “about 12 inches of paperwork,” he
said, including his personal story.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-24"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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wrote 14,000 words. “I wanted to tell them everything, the whole story,
warts and all,” he said. “It didn’t make a difference to me if
strategically it was the right thing to do.” He added, “I let go of the
outcome.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-25"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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had a hearing via videoconference last May. “I was scared,” Grant said,
but he was surprised to find that the panel members questioning him
were “kind.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-26"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-27"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“They
were thorough and probing, but they were not out to tank me. They were
supportive,” he said. “It helped me remember the best parts of being a
lawyer.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-27"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-28"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">On May 5, his license was officially reinstated, and he promptly launched <a href="https://grantlaw.com"><span style="color: #00ccff;">GrantLaw PLLC</span></a>.
With an office on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, he’s offering his
services as a private general counsel specializing in white-collar
crisis management.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-28"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-29"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">That
might include helping a white-collar defendant interview defense
lawyers and other specialized counsel, reviewing the lawyers’ work
product and billing, and acting as a sounding board, all with the goal
of achieving a better and more-cost-efficient outcome.</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-29"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-30"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">“Most
white-collar defendants are very bright, who have a lot of professional
experience and are highly educated,” Grant said. “They don’t realize
they’re in trauma – and are making generally very bad decisions while in
trauma.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-30"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-31"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">They need “someone who understands trauma,” he said, “and somebody to trust.”</span></span></span></h4><h4 class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs" data-testid="paragraph-31"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></h4><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<h4 class="ApplePlainTextBody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(212) 859-3512, </span><a href="mailto:jgrant@grantlaw.com" style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">jgrant@grantlaw.com</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></a><span style="color: #00ccff;"><a href="https://grantlaw.com" style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">GrantLaw.com</span></a></span></span></h4>
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<h4><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jeff Grant is on a
mission. After a hiatus from practicing law, he is once again in private
practice and is committed to using his legal expertise and life
experience to benefit others.</span></span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jeff provides a broad
range of legal services in a highly attentive, personalized manner.
They include private general counsel, white collar crisis management to
individuals and families, services to family-owned and closely-held
businesses, plus support to special situation and pro bono clients.</span></span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For more than 20
years, Jeff served as managing attorney of a 20+ employee law firm
headquartered in New York City and then Westchester County, New York.
The firm’s practice areas included representing family-owned and
closely-held businesses and their owners, business and real estate
transactions, trusts and estates, and litigation.</span></span></h4>
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<h4 class="ApplePlainTextBody"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Progressive Prison Ministries website: <a href="https://prisonist.org/" style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00ccff;">https://prisonist.org</span></a></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="ApplePlainTextBody"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Linked In: <a href="https://linkedin.com/revjeffgrant" style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00ccff;">https://linkedin.com/revjeffgrant</span></a></span></span></h4>
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Don’t let desperation cloud your judgment.</h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">In the months after 9/11, I was frantic.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">But my fears had
less to do with the tragedy at the Word Trade Center and more to do with
the fact that, after 10 years of rampant prescription opioid abuse, my
business was failing. I was searching desperately for an out. Meanwhile,
the television and radio were blaring with ads for 9/11 FEMA loans
administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">So, on an especially bad day, I lied.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I said I had an office near ground zero. I received the <a class="auto-tagged ga-click ent-tags" data-ga-action="/topic/sba" data-ga-category="autotag-linking" data-ga-label="ent-tags" href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/sba" style="color: black;">SBA</a>
loan I requested, and immediately paid down the personal credit cards I
had run up while waiting for the SBA money. Even so, the loan did
little to stop my spiral into drug addiction, mental health issues,
marital problems and magical thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">In 2002, I resigned my
law license and started on the road to recovery. But it all caught up
with me about 20 months later, when I was arrested for the
misrepresentations on my loan application. I served almost 14 months at a
Federal prison for wire <a class="auto-tagged ga-click ent-tags" data-ga-action="/topic/fraud" data-ga-category="autotag-linking" data-ga-label="ent-tags" href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/fraud" style="color: black;">fraud</a> and money laundering.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">My objective in
writing this piece is to offer some insight on what business owners
should consider before they take out disaster loans. Certainly, the
majority of people requesting these loans are honest and upstanding
entrepreneurs who have immense need for the aid, and will use the funds
properly. I am very glad there is help for them. That said, history has
shown us again and again that when people are in dire need, they’re more
prone to make impulsive, ill-advised decisions. My hope is that sharing
my experience will help others avoid the consequences I faced. Here are
seven takeaways.</span><br />
<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><b><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350337"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></a></b></i>
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1. Desperate people do desperate things.</h2>
There
were thousands of fraud prosecutions after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina,
Superstorm Sandy, and so on. Why? Whether because of overwhelming
business issues, poor personal judgment, or just plain bad luck, people
were wounded, desperate and willing to do anything, <i>anything</i>, to stop the bleeding. But if the wound is too deep, a Band-aid is not sufficient.<br />
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<i>Practice point: In any situation, behaving desperately is unlikely to save your business</i>.<br />
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2. Beware of the belief that rules are suspended in times of emergency.</h2>
The <a class="auto-tagged ga-click ai-metadata" data-ga-action="/topic/government" data-ga-category="autotag-linking" data-ga-label="ai-metadata" href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/government">government</a>
is advertising that huge amounts of money are available to save our
businesses. I recently sat in on a webinar run by a very reputable
business consulting group that recommended that attendees get their SBA
disaster loan applications in immediately, regardless of the facts or
the actual needs of their business — they said we could
always modify our applications prior to taking the money. State
unemployment websites are actually giving instructions, <i>in writing</i>,
on how to mislead and circumvent the system in order to get approved.
Don’t take the bait! If you default two years from now, this
“good-meaning advice” won’t matter to prosecutors.<br />
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<i>Practice point: Be truthful at all times.</i><br />
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3. Beware of magical thinking.</h2>
This
is a tough one because entrepreneurs are inherently optimistic. We
believe that things will always be better tomorrow than they are today.
It drives us, makes us successful, informs our risk-taking. But in times
of trauma, that voice can be an entrepreneur’s worst enemy. Does this
sound familiar? We have learned the hard way that there is no shortcut,
and yet we desperately want there to be one right now.<br />
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<i>Practice
point: Instead of immediately reaching for a bailout or other quick
fix, develop a good solid business plan. Maybe a disaster loan will fit
into this plan; maybe it won’t.</i><br />
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4. This paradigm shift will affect all small to mid-size businesses.</h2>
We
are in the midst of a massive reordering that has already had a huge
effect on small and mid-sized businesses. Business owners are being
called to closely examine if our business models are still viable, or if
we must pivot to new ways of doing things. Example: the Swiss watch
industry completely missed the shift to digital watches. Have we waited
too long to have a robust online presence? Are our products or services
even needed anymore? Have we been holding on by a thread for years,
unwilling or unable to look at the hard facts?<br />
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<i>Practice point: Get real, now. Don’t borrow money to save a business that can’t be saved.</i><br />
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5. Be cautious when borrowing from the government.</h2>
As
is the case with any loan, the devil is in the details. The terms and
covenants in the loan documents dictate what you can or can’t do with
the money once you get it. You can only use the funds for the purposes
you stated in your application — that is, to pay operating
expenses of the business to keep it afloat until it starts bringing in
sufficient revenue again. You (and your spouse) will probably have sign
for the loan personally, and will probably have to pledge all available
collateral, including a second (or third) mortgage on your house. If you
maxed out your personal credit cards while anticipating your disaster
relief funding, you can’t use the money to pay off your cards.<br />
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<i>Practice
point: Read the terms and covenants of the loan closely. Whatever the
loan terms say to do, do, and whatever they say don’t do, don’t do. No
exceptions.</i><br />
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6. We can't save our businesses and our lifestyles at the same time.</h2>
Here’s the big trap. We have mortgages, car payments, school tuitions, and other personal expenses that have to be paid, <i>and soon</i>. But simply put, <a class="auto-tagged ga-click ent-tags" data-ga-action="/topic/sba-loans" data-ga-category="autotag-linking" data-ga-label="ent-tags" href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/sba-loans">SBA loans</a> are meant to save your business, not your lifestyle. Discuss all your options with advisors and friends you trust — ones
that will tell you the truth! It’s like going to the doctor. Your
diagnosis will only be as accurate as the history you provide. These
are trying times, with a triage system designed to be more expeditious
than thorough.<br />
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<i>Practice point: There is no such thing as a free lunch. B</i><i>orrowing money comes with responsibility and accountability.</i><br />
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7. Get acquainted with acceptance.</h2>
I
hope we are all great entrepreneurs who can figure out ways to make our
businesses survive and flourish. But let’s face it. Some of our
businesses will not make it, even with the infusion of government funds.
What should we do? We can pare down, embrace change and do things
differently as we start a new chapter. Never forget that there will
always be opportunity to start again, and to live a fuller, more
abundant life. <i> </i><br />
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<i>Practice point: Sometimes less</i> <i>is way, way more!</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Read on Entrepreneur.com </span><b><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350337"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">here.</span></a></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Radio/Podcast:
Business Talk with Jim Campbell: Jeff Grant Talks with Jim About Going
to Prison for SBA Loan Fraud and What to Know Before Taking Coronavirus
Relief Money, Biz Talk National Radio Network, Broadcast from 1490 AM
WGCH Greenwich, CT, Mon., Apr. 27, 2020. Listen on YouTube <a href="https://prisonist.org/radio-podcast-business-talk-with-jim-campbell-jeff-grant-talks-about-prison-for-sba-loan-fraud-taking-coronavirus-relief-money-yale-radio-wybcx-new-haven-wgch-greenwich-connecticut/" style="color: black;"><strong>here</strong></a>.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Video/Podcast:
Jeff & Babz Talk SBA Loan Fraud and 7 Things to Know Before You Take
Coronavirus Relief Money, WNHH 103.5 FM New Haven, CT, Fri., April 24,
2020. Watch on YouTube <a href="https://prisonist.org/video-podcast-jeff-babz-talk-sba-loan-fraud-7-things-to-know-before-you-talk-coronavirus-relief-money-wnhh-new-haven-fri-april-24-2020/" style="color: black;"><strong>here</strong></a>.</em></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><b><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350337"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></a></b></i>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://prisonist.org/about-jeff-grant" style="color: black;"><i><b>Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div.</b></i></a><i> is </i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>an
ordained minister with over three decades of experience in crisis
management, business, law, reentry, recovery (clean & sober 17+
years), and executive & religious leadership. Sometimes referred to
in the press as “The Minister to Hedge Funders,” he uses his experience
and backgroun</i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>d
to guide people faithfully forward in their lives, relationships,
careers and business opportunities, and to help them to stop making the
kinds of decisions that previously resulted in loss, suffering and
shame. Jeff is the Co-Founder of <a href="http://prisonist.org/"><b><span style="color: black;">Progressive Prison Ministries</span></b></a>, the world’s first ministry serving the white collar justice community. It hosts a <b><a href="http://prisonist.org/white-collar-support-group" style="color: black;">White Collar Support Group</a></b>
online on Zoom on Monday evenings, 7 pm ET, 6 pm CT, 5 pm MT, 4 pm PT.
The group marked its milestone 200th weekly online meeting on Mon.,
April 13th. Jeff can be reached at <a href="http://prisonist.org/"><span style="color: black;"><b>prisonist.org</b></span></a>, <a href="mailto:jgrant@prisonist.org"><span style="color: black;"><b>jgrant@prisonist.org</b></span></a><span style="color: black;"><b>.</b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Read this article on Medium <b><a href="https://medium.com/@jgrant3074_31857/7-things-to-know-before-you-take-disaster-relief-money-by-jeff-grant-j-d-m-div-c9c826031642" style="color: black;">here</a>.</b> </i></span></div>
Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-46012443425641655372018-04-19T05:37:00.000-04:002019-08-27T05:59:53.967-04:00THE REDEMPTION OF JEFF GRANT, BY TIMOTHY DUMAS, GREENWICH MAGAZINE, MARCH 2018<br />
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GRANDIOSITY, OPIOID ADDICTION and FINANCIAL FRAUD. HE ENDED UP IN
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">He’d filled out the paperwork demonstrating that his law firm,
Jeffrey D. Grant & Associates, had suffered economic hardship in the
wake of 9/11, embellishing only a little to buttress his claim.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Grant’s own mind, he had done nothing wrong. What did it matter
that his firm was not in the shadow of the Towers, not in Manhattan at
all, but way out in Mamaroneck? The ads on the radio said Westchester
County businesses also were eligible for disaster relief loans. And when
he called the people down at the Small Business Administration office,
they confirmed his eligibility. Next came the application: He wrote down
the correct and proper Mamaroneck address required of him — then he
added, for good measure, a not-so-correct and proper Wall Street
address. “I was desperate,” Grant recalls. “I needed that money. There
was no question in my mind that my motive was to say anything I had to
say — and so I described an office situation in New York that just
wasn’t true.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">It wasn’t entirely false, either. Grant had an agreement with a firm
at 40 Wall Street to use its conference space for the convenience of
his Manhattan clients. “But I don’t think I had ever actually used the
space,” Grant says. “And losing it would have had zero economic impact
on my firm." </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Why did it not occur to Grant that he
had crossed into ethical badlands? Perhaps because he’d done it already,
in a rash attempt to save his once high-flying firm from ruin: “I was
spiraling down. My firm was completely out of cash.” When the day came,
in 2000, that Grant could not make payroll, desperation got the better
of him: He borrowed from clients’ escrow accounts without their
knowledge, setting in motion a New York State attorneys’ grievance
committee investigation.</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">That investigation was still in
progress on September 11, 2001. Unknown to his family and friends,
unknown even to his employees (who nevertheless had their suspicions),
the firm was as good as dead, and Grant himself faced the prospect of
disbarment. So great was the weight of these secrets that he was
vomiting up blood. Not only that. He had ballooned to 285 pounds. He
drank too much. And he was addicted to opioid painkillers—first Demerol
and then OxyContin. “I took things to wake up. I took things to go to
sleep. I was a mess.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">So in the darkening whirlwind of his
life, what did a little embroidery on a loan application matter? The
loan came through—$247,000—an answered prayer, a well of tears.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">GREED & GRANDIOSITY</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I never knew the old Jeff Grant. But I’ve known the present Jeff
Grant—the Reverend Jeffrey Grant, the advocate for convicts and their
families, the rare voice for white collar criminals—for about ten years.
It’s October, and we’re sitting in his office at Family ReEntry, a
Bridgeport-based nonprofit that helps inmates find their feet back out
in the real world, a world where the reception is cold and the way
forward ridden with obstacles. In 2016 Grant was named CEO and executive
director of Family ReEntry—its first leader who knows the mission from
the inside out, having done his own stretch in prison.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">As his saga rolls out of him, I think of Dante’s <i>Divine Comedy</i>.
Not funny in the least, it’s the story of a man losing his way in the
middle of his life’s journey, descending into hell, and struggling back
to the bright world, where once again he beholds the stars: <i>Inferno</i>, <i>Purgatorio</i>, <i>Paradiso</i>.</span></span></span></h5>
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At sixty-one, Grant is a powerful-looking man with a broad,
expressive face and curly gray hair swept back from his temples. He
reflects on his old self frankly, almost brutally, without excuses. Who
was that man and how did he get that way? If you’d met him socially, you
probably would have liked him. He coached his daughters’ softball team.
He sat on the school board. He owned a restaurant. “I was this
fun-loving, backslapping guy,” he says. “People may have been talking
about me behind my back, saying I was out of my mind, I don’t know. But
they would have seen this huge guy who put his arm around everyone,
hugged everyone, kissed everyone.” He pauses, then adds this curious
detail: “I had tons of people who probably considered me their friend —
but I didn’t necessarily consider any of them my friend.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you’d met him professionally, you might have disliked him
intensely. In 1991 he moved his family out of Manhattan, to Rye, and
opened the Mamaroneck office. “That’s when things started flying,” he
says. “I was a big fish in a small pond” specializing in real estate law
and serving as general counsel to a company that owned hundreds of
buildings. “I became increasingly arrogant and grandiose. I wasn’t a
nice guy. I viewed my job as winner take all—I was like a paid
assassin.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Underlying his aggressive style were the addictions—chiefly the
opioid addiction. (He originally kicked Demerol in 1986 but relapsed in
1992, after rupturing his achilles tendon playing basketball.) And
underlying the drugs was an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The disease’s
“up” phase seemed to endow him with special powers of perception. “I
would have these moments of real clarity. Some bipolar people talk about
it — it’s almost a genius. You see connections that other people can’t
see.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">His success begat more success. If the firm was running low on
cases, he would go for a walk and come back with ten new ones. “Everyone
wants to be near successful people,” he explains. “They want to rub the
arm of the person who has the golden goose.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, he had fashioned a lavish lifestyle for himself and his
family. “I did everything to the extreme. I was flaunting this nouveau
riche lifestyle, flaunting it. There was no humility. I’d go down and
lease the biggest BMW you could get. I had a house in the best section
of town. We would go on shopping trips — I mean big vacations, just to
shop, and we would come back with massive amounts of clothes. I didn’t
even know that other families were looking at us like, ‘What’s going
on?’”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Somewhere along the line, his lawyerly aggression turned to
recklessness. Grant has no memory of a hard tipping point. But his risky
decisions ceased paying off, as any gambler’s will. “I kind of knew
that I was betting the house on every hand. I knew that. But I was
powerless to stop it.” For example, he took big positions in dot-com
startups, certain that just one hit would set him up for life. He had
these positions written on Post-it notes and affixed to his computer.
One day his assistant casually said, “What if none of them hit?” “And I
said, ‘No, that can’t happen.’ But of course in 2000, when the dot-com
bubble burst, it was all gone.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around this time, a friend who knew of Grant’s Demerol habit visited
his office — he opened his hand and let a pile of OxyContin spill onto
Grant’s broad, wood burl desk. “That was a whole new level, just crazy,”
he said of the drug that would fuel the current opioid epidemic. “I
couldn’t work at all. I couldn’t do anything. I would just go over to
his house in the middle of the afternoon and sit in his den and watch
The Golf Channel with him while my firm was disintegrating.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then came the raiding of the escrow accounts. And then 9/11. He
nursed the tiny hope that the disaster relief loan, which he applied for
in December 2001, could save his firm — but in embroidering the
application Grant had released the hellhounds, as it were, and it was
only a matter of time before they ran him down.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2002 a former business partner who’d learned of the investigation
into the escrow debacle — now in its second year — wrote a letter to
the grievance committee detailing Grant’s other sins. “He talked not
just about my character, but about my drug use, about all the horrible
things I’d done to him,” Grant remembers. “I think he was fundamentally
right, but at the time I was appalled. A copy of the letter was sent to
me by my ethics lawyer. I asked him, ‘How devastating is this to my
case?’ And he said, ‘Devastating — it’s devastating.’”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">On July 28, 2002, Grant resigned his law license, conceding his
unethical borrowing. (Soon after, the state ordered his disbarment.)
Next he called a physician friend who once again wrote out a
forty-tablet prescription for Demerol. Grant picked it up at the
pharmacy — this time with a sense of doom. “My life was over,” he says.
“I knew I was going to try to kill myself.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">That night, after his family went to bed, he sat down in his easy
chair, turned on the TV, and downed the vial of pills. Then he sank away
into oblivion.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">HIS AWAKENING</span><br />
He came to, woozily, in the morning. During the night he had slid out of
his chair and now he was lying crumpled on the floor. He vomited. He
crawled to the kitchen to look for more pills to end the job, but no
luck: His recent string of failures now included the failure to commit
suicide.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the blur of days that followed, Grant knew, as those who hit
bottom sometimes do, that he would never take another opioid painkiller.
He arranged admission to Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, but his
wife and daughters — whom Grant had kept in the dark about the depths of
his turmoil, not to mention the suicide attempt—reminded him they had a
wedding to attend that night. Could rehab wait a day? “After the
ceremony I walked into the bar, and they were pouring shots for the
wedding party,” Grant says. “There were like fifteen shots on the bar.
It’s cloudy, but I just remember it. I went up to the bar and said
something either funny or pathetic, and people laughed as I drank every
one of those shots. Those were the last drinks I ever had. August 9,
2002.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the fog of disease and addiction, Grant often believed that
people were plotting against him, were taking advantage of him in ways
he could not quite pinpoint. “My friends, my family, my parents, they
had all done these horrible, horrible things to me,” he says. At Silver
Hill, as the fog began to lift, he awoke one night and sat bolt upright
in his bed. How had he not seen it before? The revelation hit him like a
blunt force wound. “I realized that they hadn’t been doing horrible
things to me — I had been doing horrible things to them! And I ran down
the hall, crying …”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here in his Bridgeport office, reliving the moment, Grant begins to weep.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I ran down the hall to the nurse’s station, crying like a baby! I
tried to explain to the nurse, ‘They weren’t doing things wrong, I was
doing things wrong! I was the bad one!’ And she put her arm around me
and started rubbing my back. And she said, ‘I know, dear, I know.’” She
fetched a binder for him to see: It bore the heading “Bipolar Disorder.”
Grandiosity. Arrogance. Flights of ideas. Manic mood swings. On and on
and on. “I said, ‘This is me, this is me.’ And at that moment, I crossed
over into recovery.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us take stock of the totality of Grant’s collapse. He was no
longer a lawyer. He no longer had a job of any kind, or even the
prospect of one. The cocksure, larger-than-life provider was gone,
replaced by a man who was a stranger to himself, down and out,
disgraced. “At that point we were pariahs,” Grant recalls. “I’d had
hundreds and hundreds of people in my circle. I was a big shot in
Mamaroneck and Rye. And nobody came to visit us—maybe like two people.
We were untouchables. We were damaged. Nobody was going to come near
us.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THE PAST DOESN’T FORGET</span><br />
After the Grants sold the house in Rye, they moved to an apartment in
Greenwich. Grant began attending recovery meetings three or four times a
day at a local church (in keeping with the recovery code, he prefers to
withhold specifics about program and venue). He would wake very early,
as was his habit, and wait outside the church on a bench or in his car
as the sun rolled up. Nobody would have guessed at his lost wealth and
position, for instead of decking himself out in the finery of that life,
he wore baggy shorts, T-shirts and a baseball cap—a uniform of
self-effacement, of anonymity.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Soon he started helping a man set up the chairs before the morning
meeting. Eventually the man asked if Grant would like to take on the
responsibility himself—to be “the chair person.” A ray of light had
found him. “It was the first time anybody had trusted me with anything,”
he says of the period after his fall. “They gave me the keys—the keys
to the church. And I would go into the church at 5 a.m., and I would set
up the chairs, and I would do it so methodically.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In my old life, I did everything to show off. But this wasn’t
showing off. I was alone. I just felt a sense of purpose. I was actually
caring for other people. I cared about how that room looked. I cared
that they came into that room and felt taken care of. So I set up chairs
every single morning for a thousand days. A thousand days! I didn’t go
on vacation, didn’t do anything. I just set up the chairs.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">When he finished each morning, he had a couple of hours to sit in
the great silence of the church and read the Bible, or pray, or
meditate. “I got this overwhelming feeling that I can’t explain,” Grant
says. “God was all around — I just turned myself over to Him.”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">And so his became the story of a man who sensed a divine hand
steering the beat-up little skiff of his life. A man who, having sweated
out every ounce of arrogance through prayer and good works, won the
affection of his tribe of mending souls, and embarked on a life of
service. But the hellhounds did not tire; all the while they’d been
gaining ground. In 2004 they caught him, and eventually ran him right
into the New York media crucible, where the gentle, kindly Jeff Grant
mutated into a particularly odious criminal: “9/11 Scammer Gets 18
Months for Loan Fraud.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">He learned of his new calamity in a humdrum way: His cell phone rang
as he was walking along West Putnam Avenue. The man on the phone
identified himself as IRS, Criminal Investigation Division. “My mind was
reeling. I said, ‘Is this a joke?’ There was no part of me, none, that
thought I had done anything wrong regarding that loan.” But the man
convinced him otherwise: How odd it was to look from a perch of clarity
upon the morass of your old life.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks later, he turned himself in at the Daniel Patrick
Moynihan U.S. Courthouse on Pearl Street in Manhattan. The concrete
barricades installed after 9/11 were still up, and the military presence
around the government buildings was still heightened. Grant took in the
vigilant mood, so evocative of that day of destruction. A sense of
shame overcame him. Certainly there was irony in the fact that he might
have got his loan anyway, without embellishing; but he had embellished,
there was no changing that now. He had taken personal advantage of a
national tragedy.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Federal marshals cuffed him and took him to a holding cell. Hours
later, at his arraignment, he pleaded guilty. Then he went back to
Greenwich to await his sentence, which would not come for another two
years.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bonds of his family life, meanwhile, had frayed to breaking. So
great was the fall, so humiliating were the circumstances, that it could
hardly have been otherwise. Then there was the overlay of recovery —
the quite real phenomenon of the recovery widow, unintentionally frozen
out of her spouse’s journey. “I didn’t even know what was going on with
my family,” admits Grant, who estimates that he attended 1,200 recovery
meetings in his first year. “I became absentee. And there came a day
that I was asked to leave.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">He left the house with two duffel bags and his clock radio.
Essentially homeless, he spent the next couple of years living in
people’s guest rooms and sleeping on their sofas. “I made sure my family
was taken care of,” he says, “but I lived without a home until I went
to prison.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant considers the generosity of his recovery mates as one of many
miracles along the way. Still, jobless, homeless and prison-bound, there
were plenty of reasons for fear and dread, and none for hope.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">One day in church, Grant turned to see a woman entering, bathed in a
kind of halo light. “She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen,”
he says, eyes twinkling. “I was spellbound.” She left the meeting
early. Impulsively he followed her out to the parking lot, a bearish,
squinty-faced man in an orange baseball cap.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I thought he was a lunatic,” she says.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her name was Lynn Springer. Svelte, fined-boned, with long, silvery
hair, she possessed a fashion model’s beauty—a beauty amplified by her
gentleness of spirit. “He had such focus in his eyes,” she continues.
“It was disconcerting.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">But at least she was aware of him now. She listened with special
attentiveness when he shared at meetings, and so learned his story in
all its wretchedness. Did it put her off? “Jeff has told you his story,”
she says to me. “Do you look at him and go, ‘Ugh, what a bad,
villainous man?’ I didn’t think that. I saw him full of life and
generosity and compassion. The enormousness of his heart, his joy of
life, were so captivating to me. And he was so kind! I had never met
anyone as kind as Jeff.” Lynn’s own marriage had ended, and such endings
are almost always difficult. “I was coming from a place in my own life
of extreme sadness. Of feeling unloved. Of disappointment. Of feeling
vulnerable. And I was very intrigued by him.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a year of friendship, she and Jeff began to see each other.
“When we went on our first date, I was so petrified I couldn’t hold her
hand,” he says. “I couldn’t do anything. I was so damaged, so afraid.”
He laughs. “I had no idea what she could possibly see in me. What a bad
bet I was!”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THE PRISON WALLS</span><br />
In January 2006 Grant was sentenced to eighteen months at Allenwood Low
Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania. (A U.S. Supreme Court
case about sentencing guidelines accounted for the two-year wait; in the
interim, he had repaid the loan.) “I’m sorry and I’m ashamed,” Grant
told the judge. “I offer no excuse for what I did.”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only now did the papers get wind of his crime. Though his old self
might have wished the news reports had teased out the nuances of the
story, his new self accepted the wave of infamy with surprising calm.
And anyway, the more immediate worry was prison itself.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Allenwood is surrounded by farmland and forest; the only remarkable
feature in the landscape is a reptile zoo across the street. Grant
reported to Allenwood on Easter Sunday, 2006. Nobody is supposed to
report to federal prison on Easter Sunday, but there had been a clerical
error, one of weird significance. If Easter is about rising, then
surely Jeff Grant had come to prison on the right day.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prison has its own byzantine laws and ways, and a new inmate must
pick them up on the fly. Why did the barber ignore Grant when he went
for his haircut? Because everything must be paid for black-market style.
You couldn’t have money in prison. So the currency at Allenwood was
smoked mackerel — the fish — available for purchase, in foil bags, at
certain times and in certain ways at the commissary. If you wanted your
uniform ironed, if you wanted a haircut, you paid with “macks.” “God
forbid you should actually eat them,” Grant says with a laugh. Because
this entire system of exchange was illegal, there were designated
“runners” to shuttle the macks to and fro.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant enjoys recounting some of these details now. But the essence
of prison is harder to get at; there’s no succinct way to describe truly
what it does to a person. “Once you go to prison, you lose touch with
reality in some way,” Grant says. “Empathy kind of escapes. I was, like,
in a deprivation tank.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The easiest way to get by was to keep his head down, talk little,
and fall into a prison groove, one day duplicating the last. Even the
supposedly glad interruption of a visitor could instill unease. For one
thing, a visit entailed hours-long preparation. When a prisoner was
finally on the verge of seeing his loved one, he entered a sort of
retaining room—and Grant is suddenly back in the present tense: “I have
to strip down and stand there naked while they check between my fingers,
check in my mouth, check my private parts, they turn you around, you
bend over, they check you.” (There was also a litany of requirements and
prohibitions for visitors. One infraction could scrap a visit for the
day, such as when Lynn wore capris. A guard had judged them to be short
pants, thus forbidden, and barked, “You—out of the line!”)</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lynn spent her first visit with her head in Jeff’s lap, crying. “I
don’t think I had fully accepted the reality of it,” she says. “The
concertina wire, the guards, the way I was treated, even as a visitor —
the way Jeff was treated. The way he behaved there. The way his eyes
were. Everything about it was humiliating. The guard would say something
and Jeff would immediately go, ‘Uh!’ and do what he was told. He was so
nervous. Just talking about it and remembering it is making me feel
sick.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">A distance opened between them. She would tell him about some
problem she was having back in Greenwich and seek his help, as had been
her custom. “And he would say to me, ‘Lynn, I’m in prison now. What do
you want me to do?’ That was his answer. And I kind of felt like I
didn’t have a partner anymore. That was devastating for me. I felt so
alone.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Grant did find his prison groove. He did it by walking — walking
around the track, lap upon lap, ten miles a day. He hit upon the idea
of walking clear across America. “In the library I pulled out a road
atlas and plotted the course from New York to L.A., all the little towns
in between, in ten-mile increments. Every day I’d vicariously be in the
town that I had walked to.” Soon gang members, drug dealers and white
collar offenders wanted in on the journey. “They would join me on
segments and I would say, ‘Today I’m walking from Akron, Ohio, making my
way down to Nashville, Tennessee.’ It was fascinating! We would talk
about where we were walking and what was in that town, and we’d look it
up. It was our form of escape.” In the end, Grant walked 3,500 miles,
shed sixty-five pounds, and learned the life stories of his fellow
inmates, human stories in all their contradictions and complexities.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">JEFF’S REENTRY</span><br />
Grant went free after serving nearly fourteen months at Allenwood. But
when he emerged, his old joi de vivre was gone. The attitude Lynn had
noticed in Jeff that first visiting day, the nervousness, the
disconnectedness — he carried it back to Greenwich.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I couldn’t look anyone in the face — I could only look at my shoes. For six months.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He didn’t even look at me,” says Lynn. “The shame, I guess.” Grant
sighs. “It wasn’t as if I didn’t want to connect. I couldn’t.” Lynn’s
daughter, Skylar, was seven when Jeff came into their lives. Though
Skylar had a loving relationship with her own father, Jeff had proved a
delightful bonus. “She said, ‘Mommy, Jeff is so warm and snuggly, when
you sit next to him to watch TV you don’t even need a blanket,’” Lynn
recalls. The post-prison Grant was decidedly cooler. “When Skylar saw
him — she was thrilled to see him — she hugged him and he hugged her,
but he wasn’t smiling or anything. She turned to me and she didn’t know
what to do. I had to hug her and comfort her. And she said, ‘I liked him
better fat.’”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gradually, the old Jeff returned. He planted himself back in his
life of service, at Liberation House in Stamford and then at Family
ReEntry in Bridgeport. Family ReEntry has strong Greenwich roots:
Elizabeth and Prescott Bush, sister-in-law and brother of George H. W.
Bush, helped found it in 1984, and the Bushes’ friend Joan Warburg held a
benefit concert each year at her backcountry estate. One year Lynn
invited Jeff to the benefit, and one of Family ReEntry’s directors asked
Grant if he would volunteer:</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">His perspective as an ex-con would be invaluable.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Feeling the old energy warm in him, Grant consulted his friend Chris
Tate, the associate minister at Second Congregational Church in
Greenwich. “I said, ‘Chris, I need to figure out what to do with my life
now.’ He said to me, ‘I think you should go to seminary.’ I looked at
him like he was crazy. ‘I’m a convicted felon. And I’m a Jew.’ He said,
‘Look, you probably have no idea what a seminary really is.’ In my mind
it was where monks walk around. He said, ‘Really, it’s a place where you
learn about social justice.’ ”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">And that idea struck at Grant’s very core. He applied.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around this time, in 2009, his mother was dying. Lynn helped nurse
her as she faded away. “At this point we were pretty serious,” Grant
says, “but I didn’t even feel I deserved to be married. Then this
beautiful, beautiful woman, a big African-American nurse who was taking
care of my mother, pulled me aside and said, ‘Honey, you better not let
that one get away.’ On the plane ride home I asked Lynn to marry me.”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Jeff and I each came from lives of privilege that had felt like
unhappy, golden cages,” Lynn says. “Together, we left all that behind
and embarked on a rocky, rough path that led us to love, hope, joy and a
life beyond our wildest dreams.” Early in their relationship, she had
stumbled upon a haiku by the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Mizuta
Masahide — nine words, summing up her life’s hardships and stubborn
beauty: “Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">AND SO IT BEGINS</span><br />
The rest of the story is epilogue. No, that’s not right. The rest of the
story is Grant’s flowering into his new life. “When I show people my
bio, every single thing, every accomplishment, is after prison,” he
says. “They can’t believe it. I can’t believe it.”</span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2012 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York,
where he focused on Christian social ethics. The same year, he and Lynn
founded the Greenwich-based Progressive Prison Project, the first
ministry in the United States to help white-collar and other nonviolent
offenders deal with prison issues — earning Grant the sobriquet
“minister to hedge funders,” though that only covers a piece of his
mission. And they founded its sister ministry, the Innocent Spouse &
Children Project, which helps the families of the accused and convicted
navigate their harsh new realities. “The people at home are left
dealing with the shame, the stigma,” Lynn says. “And there was a lot of
it.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lynn tells me of people who up and walked away, bristling with
disapproval, when she told them Jeff’s story. Even after Jeff became a
minster, there were people who refused to shake his hand. Paradoxically,
perhaps, white-collar crime tends to be less forgivable than other
crimes. Even Dante says so. His seventh circle of hell is reserved for
the violent; his eighth is for the frauds.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In towns like ours, the families of the convicted live quietly
excruciating lives. “They know everybody’s whispering about them,” Lynn
says. “And in these affluent towns the children are ostracized. ‘Oh,
you’re not having a playdate with so-and-so, his daddy blah-blah-blah.’”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">“There’s not a lot of services there,” Jeff adds. “There’s not a lot
of understanding. You’re pretty much in a vacuum, and the sense of
isolation is huge.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The stigma he speaks of does not exist in Bridgeport. Grant often
preached at the city’s First Baptist Church (and ran its prison
ministry) in addition to his work at Family ReEntry, and the starkly
different attitudes he witnessed vexed and fascinated him. “They have
this embodied understanding of criminal justice and prison,” he
observes. “It’s part of their culture, unfortunately. But they rally
around one another, and they’re helpful to one another, and they’re not
shunning and they are not stigmatizing.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of his great goals is to bring communities like Greenwich and
Bridgeport together, to get them to share their common humanity. “That’s
not an easy thing to do,” he admits. “There’s prejudice on both sides.
Everyone is frightened of things they don’t know about.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Certainly that was once true of Grant himself. In the end, he says,
we don’t really know which of our journey’s twists and turns are good
for us, and which are bad. “But I do know that the things I was most
afraid of in life turned out to be the best things for me.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">MISSION: Social Justice</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant’s work spans a wild
range—blighted neighborhoods to back-country estates—with prison and
anguished families as a common thread</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> FAMILY REENTRY </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">By 2007, when Grant
got out of prison, he had already discovered the presence of God in his
life. But how could he engage his spiritual self in a world that treated
ex-cons as outcasts? One small way was to volunteer at Family ReEntry, a
Bridgeport-based agency that helps ex-cons return productively to their
cities and towns. It offers, among other things, intervention;
mentorship; skills training; and mental health, substance abuse and
domestic abuse counseling. In 2009 Family ReEntry asked Grant to join
its board.</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">On his first day as a
board member, he was waiting outside the First Baptist Church of
Bridgeport (the former home of Family ReEntry), staring at a desolate
lot on Washington Avenue. “Weeds had grown up to like eight feet tall,
and there were car parts and garbage all over,” Grant says. “And inside
the weeds was what looked like a crop circle. It was a heroin den—an
outdoor heroin den. The neighborhood was so dangerous that the seniors
couldn’t even walk to Walgreens without a security guard.”</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Grant had a vision of
turning that lot into a park. And with the support of the board, the
lot owner, Grant’s wife, Lynn Springer, then-Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch
and some Greenwich hedge funders, that’s exactly what he did. Family
ReEntry organized a crew of ex-cons who made the unlikely transformation
of heroin den into a lovely, lighted park. “It was the largest
privately owned, public-use park and garden in the state,” Grant says.</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">This proved to be a
kind of metaphor. If people can be seen as gardens in distress, then
Family ReEntry helps reclaim about 3,500 of them every year. Among other
achievements last year, about 90 percent of those in Family ReEntry’s
residential programs successfully transitioned back into their
communities, and about 93 percent of those in mentoring programs
enlisted in high school equivalency programs. Family ReEntry is also the
state’s largest provider of domestic abuse services.</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">In 2016 Grant was
named Family ReEntry’s executive director—as far as he knows, the first
person in the U.S. formerly incarcerated for a white-collar crime to
head a major criminal justice nonprofit. He had his work cut out for
him. That July, Connecticut’s fiscal trouble forced the Department of
Corrections to end all nonresidential behavioral health programs for
returning inmates, including $2 million in Family ReEntry programs. The
state had worked hard to reduce its prison population from 20,000 to
14,000. But now, Grant says, “there are no longer mandated critical
support services to help ensure that these individuals won’t be forced
to go back to the very behavior that landed them in prison in the first
place.” Grant says Family ReEntry is on the rebound, but he hopes that
private fundraising in affluent communities can further offset the loss.
<a href="http://familyreentry.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><i>familyreentry.org</i></a></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">PROGRESSIVE PRISON MINISTRIES/INNOCENT SPOUSE & CHILDREN PROJECT</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">In 2012 Grant and his
wife, Lynn, founded Progressive Prison Ministries and Innocent Spouse
& Children Project. The former helps those accused or convicted of
white-collar (and other nonviolent) crimes navigate incarceration
issues—from going in to coming out. The latter helps their families
cope. Often wives and children are left destitute when the breadwinner
goes to prison and his assets are frozen or seized. And there’s no
natural sympathy for them, Grant says. “Even some of the churches turn
their backs on you.”</span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The ministries help
guide families to available financial resources—such as help with
heating bills and groceries—or just comfort them when they cry. For the
imprisoned, Grant organizes video conferences offering advice from those
who have been there; he also helps the men (they are almost always men)
forge new career paths. For example, he helped one hedge funder go back
to school to become a drug counselor. The ministries continue to
thrive. <a href="http://prisonist.org/" rel="noopener" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><i>prisonist.org.</i></a></span></span></span></span></h5>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=d2e4fa96-2f5b-4293-be09-8978ccff75a2"><i>Reprinted from Greenwich Magazine, March 2018 issue</i></a></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant is a leader, expert and speaker in (1) criminal
justice/prisoner reentry, (2) recovery from opioid and substance abuse,
(3) leading a successful life with bipolar disorder/other mental
illnesses, and (4) spirituality/interfaith religion. After addiction to
prescription opioids and serving almost 14 months in a Federal prison
for a white-collar crime he committed when he was a lawyer, Jeff started
his own reentry – earning a Master of Divinity from Union Theological
Seminary in New York City. As the Executive Director of <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=c9diqr7ab.0.0.vigakjtab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Ffamilyreentry.org" rel="noopener" shape="rect" target="_blank">Family ReEntry</a>,
a criminal justice organization with offices and programs in eight
Connecticut cities, he is the first person in the United States
incarcerated for a white-collar crime to be appointed CEO of a major
criminal justice nonprofit. He is also the Co-Founder of <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=c9diqr7ab.0.0.vigakjtab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prisonist.org" rel="noopener" shape="rect" target="_blank">Progressive Prison Ministries</a>
– the first ministry in the country created to provide confidential
support and counseling to individuals, families and organizations with
white-collar and other nonviolent incarceration issues. Jeff can be
reached at (203) 405-6249, jgrant@prisonist.org, <a href="https://prisonist.org/">prisonist.org</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Greenwich Time: Nonprofits adjust to austere reality</span></span></h1>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Family ReEntry Executive Director Jeff] Grant said that with state agencies withdrawing support, the main
strategy he and other private nonprofit providers are taking is outside
support.</span></span> “We’re looking at more private funding, foundation funding, and to be
considerably less (reliant) on the [government] to fund solutions to social
problems,” Grant said. “We need to get a real private-public
partnership that’s innovative and supportive. Unfortunately, it means we
have to make do with less and find ways to seek and get support.”</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reprinted from <a href="http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Nonprofits-adjust-to-austere-reality-12381928.php">Greenwich Time, Nov. 27, 2017</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Facing an austere state budget, nonprofit social-service providers are tightening their belts and doing more with less.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They’re cutting programs, reducing staff and seeking more private
donations. When the next session of the General Assembly meets in
February, service providers will be asking state lawmakers to let them
handle more programs, in exchange for more funding, because they are
less-expensive than state-employee-run treatment centers, day programs
and residences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gian-Carl Casa, president and chief executive officer of the CT
Community Nonprofit Alliance, said the current budget, which lawmakers
crafted during a contentious year that finally eliminated a $5 billion
deficit, culminates a decade of underfunding for the state’s private
social-service providers, and sharp reductions in state aid in more
recent years.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s really a
cumulative effect on a lot of places,” Casa said during a recent
interview, adding that between July and October, when state services
were sharply curtailed under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s executive order,
years of stress were added on nonprofits.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“While some providers eventually received the state funding they had
counted on, across the board, folks are having a hard time,” said Casa,
whose umbrella group represents dozens of nonprofits that focus on
developmental disabilities, arts, children, adult behavioral health and
community justice.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Executive-order hardships</b></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Francis, executive director of the Bridgeport-based Regional
Youth Adult Social Action Partnership, said the new two-year, $41
billion state budget restored money for the organization’s Street Safe,
program, which offers alternatives for teens and young adults who are at
risk of joining gangs or are already gang members.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I think we’ll get about
$233,000, which will enable us to run the program in full force,” said
Francis, who had to lay off two employees when the new fiscal year began
on July 1 without a budget and Malloy’s executive order sharply cut
social-service funding. “It’ll enable us to run the program full-force
and get everyone back who we let go.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Still, Francis is worried about other funding he usually gets from
the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. He said
that state officials want to merge the 14 regional action councils such
as RYASAP with regional mental health boards.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall, RYASAP provides direct services for about 2,000 people a
year and trains as many as another 5,000 in its juvenile-justice
initiatives, youth development, public service and parent education,
Francis said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kelly Donnelly, Malloy’s communications director, said changes in nonprofit funding reflect hard economic reality.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Nonprofit social-service providers are an integral part of the
system,” Donnelly said. “Regrettably, they, like other important
entities that receive state support, have been affected by our state’s
present budget constraints. We continue to work with them to explore
options to mitigate the impact of cuts in funding.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking for outside support</b></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant, CEO of Family ReEntry, which concentrates on helping
inmates transition back into their communities, said that the contracts
his nonprofit has with the state Judicial Branch have not been affected.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Thus far, the only reduction that we have received is a 4.5 percent,
across-the-board cut by the Department of Correction,” said Grant, a
former white-collar offender. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“After losing approximately $2 million in
behavioral health contracts on July 1, 2016, we have grown and made back
almost half of that.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Family ReEntry serves about 3,500 individuals and families in eight cities.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I think our biggest problem is that as of 18 months ago, the state
dismantled nonresidential mental health programming. So there are no
mandated services,” Grant said. “There are some very progressive
programs going on inside the prisons.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant said state officials believe that inmates leaving prison who
need mental health services will find them through Medicaid and other
programs.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“But since there is no enforcement, most are not going to go,” he said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant said that with state agencies withdrawing support, the main
strategy he and other private nonprofit providers are taking is outside
support.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We’re looking at more private funding, foundation funding, and to be
considerably less (reliant) on the [government] to fund solutions to social
problems,” Grant said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We need to get a real private-public
partnership that’s innovative and supportive. Unfortunately, it means we
have to make do with less and find ways to seek and get support.”</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>But to Grant, it’s the private donations that give his criminal
justice programs flexibility. Family Re-entry has offices in Bridgeport,
New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, Norwich and New London.</span></span></span></i></b>
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“We believe that’s the way we can have the most impact and create the
most creative programs,” he said of the individual donations.</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Also, as state and federal grants become more scarce, private donations are becoming more important, Grant said.</span></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Reprinted from <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2017/11/28/ct-nonprofits-fear-gop-tax-overhaul-will-reduce-charitable-giving/">CT Mirror, Nov. 28, 2017</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Washington</b> – Both the tax bill the Senate hopes to
vote on this week and a House-passed tax overhaul would keep the
popular charitable deduction, but non-profits say the legislation still
would shrink American help to those in need.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">CT Community Nonprofit Alliance President Gian-Carl Casa says the
bills would “devastate” the state’s community based non-profits.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“This is a significant problem for non-profits,” Casa said of the GOP tax bills.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The main reason?</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The tax bills in both the House and Senate would eliminate most
individual deductions, and nearly double the standard deduction. That
means taxpayers may stop itemizing their deductions – and have less of
an incentive to give to charity.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 720,000
Connecticut taxpayers itemized deductions in 2015. Most of them,
603,420, claimed a charitable deduction. That’s nearly 35 percent of the
state’s income tax filers.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But by simplifying tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction,
the number of taxpayers who choose to itemize – and use the charitable
tax deduction – is expected to drop to 5 percent, according to the CT
Community Nonprofit Alliance and analyses by national non-profit groups.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://leadership18.org/leadership-18-ceos-speak-out-in-support-of-expanding-the-charitable-tax-deduction">A study</a>
commissioned this year by Leadership 18 and the Independent Sector, an
alliance of the CEOs of the nation’s largest non-profits, found that
these changes could decrease charitable giving by an estimated $13.1
billion annually. (Full disclosure: The Connecticut Mirror is published
by the nonprofit Connecticut News Project.)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The heads of the nation’s largest nonprofits, including the American
Red Cross, the American Cancer Association, the Boy Scouts and the YMCA,
want Congress to allow all tax filers to be able to take the
deduction, not just those who itemize. But the GOP writers of the House
and Senate tax bills have yet to make that change.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The issue is of concern to smaller nonprofits, too.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant, executive director of <a href="http://familyreentry.org/">Family ReEntry</a>, a criminal justice
non-profit, said he’s concerned there’s less incentive for people to
donate to his organization under the GOP tax bills, universally opposed
by Democrats.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant said about half of $700,000 a year his group receives from
private donors comes from individuals. The bulk of the group’s income,
about $4 million, comes from state and federal grants.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But to Grant, it’s the private donations that give his criminal
justice programs flexibility. Family Re-entry has offices in Bridgeport,
New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, Norwich and New London.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We believe that’s the way we can have the most impact and create the
most creative programs,” he said of the individual donations.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, as state and federal grants become more scarce, private donations are becoming more important, Grant said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both the House and Senate tax bills would lower the top corporate
rate from 35 percent to 20 percent and lower rates for individuals, too.
But they would eliminate many popular individual deductions, including
the ones for state and local taxes and for interest on student loans.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even as GOP crafters of the tax bill were careful to keep the
charitable contribution deduction, which turns 100 years old this month,
the worry about the disincentive to itemize in the tax plans has spread
in the nonprofit community.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s a scary proposition for us,” said Alice Forrester, CEO of
Clifford Beers Clinic, which provides mental health care for thousands
of children and their parents in the New Haven area.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forrester said she’s concerned that some loyal donors who contribute
less than $1,000 a year may stop giving or donating less. She’s also
worried the disincentive to itemize will hurt efforts to attract
Millennial donors and start them down the philanthropic path.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are other concerns, too, said Casa of the CT Community Non-Profit Alliance.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One is that the House tax bill would repeal the Johnson Amendment, a
provision in the U.S. tax code that since 1954 has prohibited certain
non-profit groups from endorsing or opposing political candidates or
donating to candidates for public office. The prohibition applies to
Section 501(c)(3) organizations, the most common type of nonprofit in
the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities
and churches.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Casa said the end of the Johnson Amendment would pressure many
non-profits to give to political candidates, siphoning off money now
spent on helping people.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To Forrester, having charities become political players, forcing them
to choose one candidate over another, would hurt them in other ways as
well.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s very important for us to stay neutral,” she said. “We depend on government to support us, no matter who is in charge.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She also said her clinic has a politically diverse staff, and
politically diverse patients, “so it would be horrible to be affiliated
with a political party.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another problem nonprofits have with the tax bills is that they would
boost the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion, forcing future cuts in
government spending on social and health programs that help fund many
nonprofits, Casa said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s hitting nonprofits from all angles,” Casa said of the tax bills.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said GOP leaders plan to
vote on the Senate version of the tax bill this week, then work out the
differences between that bill and one passed by the House earlier this
month.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the White House this week indicated the House may be persuaded to
vote on a Senate-approved bill so that a final bill can become law
before Christmas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Young inmates are getting direction — not just detention — in one
corner of Connecticut’s prison system, and they’re straightening out as a
result.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">State Department of Correction Commissioner Scott Semple created the experiment called <a class="externalLink" href="http://portal.ct.gov/en/Office-of-the-Governor/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2017/03-2017/Gov-Malloy-Announces-Opening-of-States-New-Corrections-Unit-Exclusively-for-Young-Adult-Offenders" rel="external">the TRUE program</a>
(which stands for Truthfulness, Respectfulness, Understanding and
Elevating) — to help 18-to-25-year-old inmates mature into responsible
adults behind bars, and prepare for successful and productive lives
after they have been released from prison.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The program, inspired
by a fact-finding visit Semple took to Germany with the governor in June
2015, is currently in place in one 70-bed unit at the Cheshire
Correctional Institution. Because of its early success, Semple is
looking to expand it to other units at Cheshire, as well as to the York
Correctional Institution for Women.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Through the TRUE program, the
young inmates are paired up with mentors who are older, fellow inmates
serving life sentences for crimes that they committed while they were
young.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Social workers from the Vera Institute of Criminal Justice
lead roundtable conversations with the young inmates that encourage them
to talk about how they are feeling, what they are hoping to accomplish
through the program, and what their goals are for after they are
released. <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.vera.org/blog/dispatches-from-t-r-u-e/connecticuts-t-r-u-e-prison-program-offers-new-beginnings" rel="external">The program applies “restorative” justice techniques</a>
that bring people who have been harmed and people causing harm together
to resolve their conflict via face-to-face conversation as opposed to
through further outbursts of violence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Semple said that the
program also rests upon active involvement of family members of the
incarcerated, as well as open lines of communication and respect between
the prison staff and the inmates.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Several months in, the program
has been a success, Semple said on the latest episode of WNHH-FMs
“Community Justice Insider with Babz Rawls-Ivy & Jeff Grant”
program. “We’ve had little to no incidents in that unit [at the Cheshire
Correctional Institution]. In essence, [this program has] created less
trauma exposure and improved the health and wellness of the staff and
the population.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Semple noted that correctional officers often get
a bad rap, and rarely get as many accolades as police officers, judges,
or probation officers. Their work, especially in the context of the
TRUE program, is critical for the successful rehabilitation of these
young inmates, he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Their job is extremely, extremely
important in terms of the mission of improving public safety,” he said.
“Because if they fail, the likelihood of failure from a public safety
perspective is much more prominent.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nearly three years into his
tenure as commissioner, Connecticut’s prison population is dropping
precipitously, from a high of nearly 20,000 in 2008 to around 14,000
today. Two prisons have closed or contracted in this year alone,
including <a class="externalLink" href="https://ctmirror.org/2017/11/07/enfield-prison-to-close-as-inmate-population-falls/" rel="external">Enfield’s medium security prison earlier this month</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And,
with initiatives like the TRUE program at Cheshire set to expand,
Semple said, he feels confident that the department he oversees is
getting closer by the day to its mission of correction, not
incapacitation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We are the model in the United States right now,”
Semple said about Connecticut’s DOC. “We’re one of the few states in
the country that has lowered its incarceration rate and its crime rate,
and we’re beginning to see a reduction in recidivism.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s
important that, whoever’s the next governor,” he continued, “they need
to take a look at some of the practices that have been in place. And to
realize the benefit in improving folks’ overall wellness.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">German Inspiration</span></span></h5>
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<figure class="caption-box floatr wHalf" id="arc90_imcaption1" style="width: 355px;"><img alt="" class="caption-img lazy-loaded" src="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/images/made/archives/upload/2017/11/Tom/Semple_360_287_86_sha-100.jpg" height="318" itemprop="image" title="Semple at WNHH FM with co-hosts Rawls-Ivy and Grant." width="400" /><figcaption style="max-width: 349px;"><div class="caption-text">
Semple at WNHH FM with co-hosts Rawls-Ivy and Grant.</div>
</figcaption></figure> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="externalLink" href="https://ctmirror.org/2017/03/05/to-focus-on-young-adults-who-are-in-prison-is-very-cutting-edge/" rel="external">Invited by the Vera Institute of Criminal Justice in June 2015</a>
to observe how other countries’ prison systems prepare inmates for
re-entry into society, Department of Correction (DOC) chief Semple and
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy found in <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/being-kid-adult-prison-here-vs-other-countries/" rel="external">Mecklenburg, Germany’s Neustrelitz Prison</a>
a facility that was specifically designed to meet the emotional and
developmental needs of its 18 to 25-year-old incarcerated population.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead
of throwing young people into lockdown or solitary confinement when
they acted out, the German prison had programs that encouraged
self-expression, communication between fellow inmates and staff,
minimum-wage employment, and a certain degree of autonomy that tried to
mimic what life was like outside of prison bars.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="externalLink" href="https://ctmirror.org/2015/01/21/malloy-names-scott-semple-to-lead-department-of-correction/" rel="external">A
self-proclaimed data-driven, incentive-based commissioner who is
willing to experiment with different ways to reduce recidivism</a>,
Semple was deeply inspired by the respect, encouragement and sensitivity
with which the German prison system treats its young inmates, he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We’re
not the department of incapacitation,” Semple said. “We’re the
department of correction. And our job is to help correct people. We’re
very good at dealing with problematic issues. Our facilities are clean
and, for the most part, quiet. But how do we move beyond clean and
quiet? It’s as simple as being responsive to people who want to be
accountable to themselves.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After returning from Germany, Semple
crunched the numbers on his own prison system. He found that 3,000
people, or roughly 20 percent of the state’s incarcerated population,
fell between the ages of 18 and 25. Those younger inmates accounted for
roughly 25 percent of all disciplinary incidents within the state’s
prison system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We do know that this is a very impulsive age,”
Semple said. He admitted that, when he was a teenager growing up in
Waterbury in the 1970s, he was involved in activity that very well might
have gotten him arrested if he were in high school today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He talked to the governor, reached out to the Vera Institute, and decided <a class="externalLink" href="https://ctmirror.org/2016/01/12/a-governor-a-commissioner-and-their-new-take-on-prison/" rel="external">to bring a little bit of the German incarceral approach to the Nutmeg State</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inspired By Personal Tragedy</span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Semple
started out as a correctional officer at the Cheshire Correctional
Institution back in 1988. Over the years he has served as legislative
liaison for the DOC, warden for the Garner Correctional Institution,
deputy commissioner of operations for the DOC, and, as of 2015, DOC
commissioner.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shortly after Semple became deputy commissioner, his
son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Soon after he
became commissioner, his son passed away.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Semple spoke about how
he and his wife struggled to decide whether or not he should accept Gov.
Malloy’s offer to serve as commissioner when going through such a
difficult time in their lives. Ultimately, he decided to do it, heeding
his late son’s strong encouragement to take the position.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The
things you traditionally get worked up about did not seem to bother me
as much because quite frankly the worst thing in my life has already
happened,” Semple said about how his son’s life and premature death have
inspired his passion and willingness to experiment as the head of the
DOC. “So why not be bold? It really led and energized the direction that
I felt compelled to take this department to.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Criminal
Justice Insider” airs every first and third Friday of the month on WNHH
FM at 10 a.m. Listen to the full interview with Scott Semple <a href="https://soundcloud.com/new-haven-independent/criminal-justice-insider-scott-semple">here</a> or Facebook Live video <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/videos/10155849033461228/">here</a>.</i></span></span><br />
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Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Bridgeport, CT, USA41.1865478 -73.1951766999999941.0909468 -73.356538199999989 41.2821488 -73.033815199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-9316375909763352512017-11-07T05:20:00.000-05:002017-11-07T05:33:44.734-05:00 Family ReEntry to Honor Philip C. Potter in Greenwich This Thursday, Nov. 9! <h1 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Philip C. Potter in Greenwich</span></span></h1>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Thursday, Nov. 9! Family ReEntry Invites You </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to a Reception at Christ
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to Honor Our Former Board Chair </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philip Potter as He
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the Elizabeth Bush Award</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reprinted from <a href="https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2017/11/06/family-reentry-to-honor-philip-c-potter/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Greenwich Sentinel</a>, Nov. 6, 2017, <b>By Richard Kaufman, Sentinel Reporter </b></span></span></h3>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Thursday, Nov. 9, at Christ Church’s Tomes-Higgins House, the
board of directors of Family ReEntry, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
supporting individuals and families impacted by the criminal justice
system, will honor Philip C. Potter with the Elizabeth Bush Volunteerism
Award.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The award is given to someone who has gone above and beyond a
volunteer role to make life altering positive changes for individuals
and families affected by the criminal justice system.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The late Elizabeth Bush, a longtime Greenwich resident, was one of
the original volunteers of Family ReEntry, and helped make it the entity
it is today.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Potter, 92, also a longtime Greenwich resident, is a former<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Philip Potter will be Honored</span></td></tr>
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chairman of Family ReEntry’s board of directors.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Potter was also a litigation partner with the Davis Polk &
Wardwell firm in New York City and a Fellow of the American College of
Trial Lawyers. He went to Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where
he was also named All American Honorable Mention and All-New England for
soccer. Potter is also a World War II veteran serving in The American
Field Service under the British Army as an ambulance driver.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over his time with the Family ReEntry, Potter focused primarily on
youth and children’s programs to help disrupt the intergenerational
cycle of incarceration.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a press release from Family ReEntry, Potter’s work has
been instrumental in that approximately 65 percent of youths matched
with mentors avoided or engaged in a reduced amount of risk-taking
behaviors.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For Family ReEntry’s Executive Director, Jeff Grant, Potter is a very
deserving recipient of the award and was an invaluable member of the
organization, which began in 1984.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“[Philip] gave up his time, [he provided] leadership, he donated
money,” Grant said. “Philip was a wonderful ambassador for Family
ReEntry and a person with a huge heart. He gave up himself thanklessly.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant became executive director last October after serving eight years on the board of directors.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, many years prior, Grant’s life was falling apart.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After years of prescription drug abuse, and after operating a law
firm that had started to fail, Grant attempted to take his own life in
the summer of 2001.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Months later, after becoming sober, a warrant was issued <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jeff Grant Speaking at The Nantucket Project </span></td></tr>
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arrest. Grant had applied for a loan using false paperwork, and had also
co-mingled client funds at his law firm in Westchester County.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2006 Grant went to federal prison for a little over a year and
rehabilitated himself. He walked nearly 3,500 miles on the track during
his time behind bars, and talked with other prisoners convicted of
white-collar crimes about what they worried about most as they prepared
to go back to their normal lives.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Upon his release, Grant was volunteering for many local service groups and found Family ReEntry.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I was interested in Family ReEntry and it was a perfect match for my
mission and my skill set,” Grant said. “I wanted to give back to the
community, I wanted to give back to the criminal justice community and
Family ReEntry is the perfect place to do that.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the years, Family ReEntry has grown, and although they primarily
serve Bridgeport, there are offices in Norwalk and New Haven. Programs
are located in Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, New London and Norwich.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grant believes organizations like Family ReEntry are critical, especially in the present economic times.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We live in a state right now where there are thousands of people
being released from prison every year. Because of the state budget
crisis, there are fewer and fewer programs to support them and to ensure
that they’re successful outside of prison so that they don’t return to
the type of criminal behavior that got them into trouble in the first
place,” Grant said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“So organizations like Family ReEntry not only provide them essential
services, but they disrupt the intergenerational cycle of incarceration
to prevent it from happening in a family over and over again.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Friends of Potter and Family ReEntry are invited to attend the event
on Nov. 9, which goes from 5 to 7 p.m. Advance RSVP is required, and can
be made to dianawhitney@familyreentry.org.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In recognition of Potter’s incredible contribution to the community,
donations can be made in his name to the youth and children’s programs
of Family ReEntry by logging onto www.familyreentry.org</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reprinted from <a href="https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2017/11/02/family-reentry-to-honor-greenwich-resident/">Greenwich Sentinel</a>, Nov. 2, 2017</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Board of Directors of Family ReEntry, a nonprofit organization
supporting individuals and families impacted by the criminal justice
system, announced a special reception to honor Philip C. Potter, 92, as
he is presented with the Elizabeth Bush Volunteerism Award.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Held on Thursday, Nov. 9 from 5 to 7 p.m., at Christ Church
Greenwich’s Tomes Higgins House, 216 E. Putnam Ave., Family ReEntry
celebrates the tremendous efforts of Potter’s work, including the
extraordinary leadership, personal involvement and financial support
that he arranged and contributed to Family ReEntry’s programs.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Elizabeth Bush Volunteerism Award recognizes a person who has
gone above and beyond a volunteer role to making life altering positive
changes for individuals and families affected by the criminal justice
system. The late Beth Bush was a longtime Greenwich resident who was
instrumental in the growth of Family ReEntry.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Family ReEntry Board Member and Greenwich resident Susan Ness
explained, “I can’t think of anyone more deserving to receive the
Elizabeth Bush Award than Philip Potter. Philip has personally changed
for the better our entire Connecticut criminal justice community, and
especially the lives of many children with a parent in prison.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Potter is the former Chairman of Family ReEntry’s Board of Directors
and has donated countless hours and financial resources to the Family
ReEntry mission to help individuals, families and entire communities. A
major focus for him has been Family ReEntry’s youth and children’s
programs, which he considered an important place to disrupt the
intergenerational cycle of incarceration. Evidence of his work is seen
in Family ReEntry’s latest impact statistics that show that
approximately 65% of youths matched with mentors avoided or engaged in a
reduced amount of risk-taking behaviors. According to Tina Banas,
Family ReEntry’s Clinical Director and Director of Youth & Family
Services, “Philip’s leadership and contribution to the lives of children
of incarceration has been immeasurable. We can’t thank him enough for
all he has done for this community.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A longtime Greenwich resident, Potter was a litigation partner with
the Davis Polk & Wardwell firm in New York City and a Fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers. He completed his education at Harvard
College and Harvard Law School, where he was also named All American
Honorable Mention and All-New England for soccer. He is also a World War
II veteran serving in The American Field Service under the British Army
as an ambulance driver. He is a past National Chairman of the Harvard
Law School Fund and a past President of the Harvard Law School
Association of New York City. He was active in committee work at the
Association of the Bar of New York City and is a past Vice President of
the Association.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To attend the event, RSVP to <a href="mailto:dianawhitney@familyreentry.org">dianawhitney@familyreentry.org</a>.
In recognition of Potter’s contribution to the community, donations can
be made in his name to the youth and children’s programs of Family
Reentry by logging onto <a href="http://link.email.dynect.net/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=WAA0HYy4enWklLGLVOCoftvRiKxkwcx7028A%2BNZlWSzSEaUD3cyAX9hxQfbHWd2i1Ex87ThYc2VU1bsYC4SJULgJwnmVLGZ7qf5ZGOJqfIpNkJ4%2BhcG78wqwpk1zMy7n&G=0&R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.familyreentry.org&I=20171031151123.00000264c01f%40mail6-33-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjU5Zjg5MjkwNmJhNGY3NGYxOGQ3MGU2Yzs%3D&S=t2oWy_lk0i27e8hgLZCUN9fl1nwmVZfUPb0kFJJw5Q0">familyreentry.org</a></span></span><br />
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Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Greenwich, CT, USA41.0262417 -73.62819639999997940.8346527 -73.950919899999974 41.2178307 -73.305472899999984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-55932004553818929252017-10-28T04:42:00.002-04:002017-10-29T05:41:39.360-04:00Family ReEntry Fall 2017 Newsletter - Serving the Justice Community Since 1984. Bridgeport, New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, Norwich, New London, Connecticut<br />
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Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Bridgeport, CT, USA41.1865478 -73.1951766999999941.0909468 -73.356538199999989 41.2821488 -73.033815199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-39370630256089750712017-10-19T05:46:00.000-04:002017-10-19T07:31:21.244-04:00Press Release: New Radio Show Explores Criminal Justice from the Inside — and Out: Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant Launch "Criminal Justice Insider"on WNHH New Haven<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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(PRLEAP.COM) The airwaves are open to discuss Criminal Justice - from the Inside. A new show, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/new-haven-independent" rel="nofollow">Criminal Justice Insider</a>, co-hosted by WNHH-FM's <a href="http://www.blogher.com/babz-rawls-ivy" rel="nofollow">Babz Rawls-Ivy</a> and Family ReEntry's Executive Director, <a href="https://familyreentry.org/executive-director/" rel="nofollow">Jeff Grant</a>,
takes a unique perspective on all issues of the justice system,
including the effects of incarceration and the challenges faced by
ex-offenders.<br />
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stories of the show's co-hosts. Rawls-Ivy and Grant have both served
prison sentences. As ex-offenders, they are well aware of the
challenges, inside and outside, of the legal system and the prison
system. They are also both examples of success and hope for others. <br />
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The show, which debuted last Friday, welcomed a much larger than
expected audience, and WNHH immediately doubled its originally scheduled
programming. Criminal Justice Insider is now slated for a full hour at
9:00AM on the first and third Fridays of each month.<br />
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Rawls-Ivy, who is also the host of WNHH's daily "LoveBabz LoveTalk," and
editor of the Inner City News, proclaimed, "Jeff and I have talked
about doing something like this for a while. When we pitched the topic
to the station, we presented so many aspects that affect so many people,
not just in Connecticut but all over the country, the content designed
itself." <br />
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As the executive director of <a href="https://familyreentry.org/" rel="nofollow">Family ReEntry</a>,
a social service organization in Bridgeport that works with individuals
and their families who have been directly impacted by incarceration,
Grant is a perfect complement to the show. "This show is important
because we go deep into the personal challenges and successes that
individuals, families and whole communities experience. There are not
many places that welcome and encourage the authentic, vulnerable side of
the criminal justice experience."<br />
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The next broadcast of Criminal Justice Insider will be on Friday,
November 3rd with special guest, Connecticut State Representative from
New Haven, Robyn Porter. Upcoming live shows will feature lively
discussions from a series of different guests, such as Connecticut
Department of Correction Commissioner Scott Semple, Katal Center
Co-Executive Director Lorenzo Jones, Carlah Esdaile-Bragg of Cornell
Hill Scott Health and Marcus Bullock of Flikshop, along with many
others.<br />
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Working in affiliation with local news source, <a href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/" rel="nofollow">The New Haven Independent</a>,
a recap of each Criminal Justice Insider show and a preview of upcoming
shows will be published. For anyone who hasn't already heard the
program, the debut broadcast is now available in its entirety on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/new-haven-independent/criminal-justice-insider-10417" rel="nofollow">SoundCloud</a> and to keep up with the topics of discussion, a Facebook page has also been set up at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/criminaljusticeinsider/?ref=br_rs" rel="nofollow">Criminal Justice Insider</a>.<br />
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<b>More about Family ReEntry:</b> Family ReEntry is a 501c3
nonprofit, which was founded in 1984 as a reentry support group for men
at the Isaiah House in Bridgeport. It has since grown to include policy
advocacy, and intervention, prevention, in-prison, reentry, fatherhood
and youth & family programs. Over the past 33 years, effective
advocacy efforts and community-based programs developed by Family
ReEntry have significantly reduced the likelihood that clients will
re-offend, be re-arrested, or be re-incarcerated. Its programs provide a
spectrum of services designed to disrupt the intergenerational cycle of
incarceration. Family ReEntry addresses the specific needs of each
client and their families through individualized case management and
support services. It works to create a positive social network for each
client, helping make their transition from prison back into the
community a successful, self-sufficient one, while strengthening their
families and the community. Family ReEntry operates its programs in
strategic locations that encompass eight municipal regions and judicial
geographic areas, two parole districts and five prisons. Approximately,
sixty-percent of those served by Family ReEntry are from greater
Bridgeport – Connecticut's largest city. The organization has offices
in Bridgeport, Norwalk and New Haven, CT. Programs are also held in
Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, New London and Norwich, CT. More information
is available at <a href="http://www.familyreentry.org/" rel="nofollow">www.familyreentry.org</a> and on its social media including, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/familyreentry?ref=tn_tnmn" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/familyreentry" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/familyreentryin/" rel="nofollow">Pinterest</a>, <a href="http://www.instagram.com/familyreentry" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/FamilyReEntry" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a>.<br />
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<i>Quarterly, Oct. 15, 2017</i></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although not in the national news as much as some states, Connecticut
faces many challenges. These include the fact that the state has the
nation’s largest <a href="http://s3.epi.org/files/2014/IncreasinglyUnequalStatesofAmerica1917to2012.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">income gap</a> and the nation’s largest <a href="http://ctedreform.org/cts-gap/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">achievement gap</a>. Yet another complication is a 2016 state Supreme Court ruling that found the state’s education funding system to be <a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/12/20/money-determines-connecticuts-achievement-gap/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">unconstitutional</a>.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most states run on a July–June fiscal year. Passing budgets late is not unusual. For example, as of this past July 2<sup>nd</sup>, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-jersey/articles/2017-07-02/states-without-a-plan-11-us-states-havent-passed-budgets" rel="noopener" target="_blank">11 states</a> had not passed budgets. But today, Connecticut is the <a href="https://www.nasbo.org/mainsite/resources/proposed-enacted-budgets">only state</a> that has not enacted a <a href="http://www.ct.gov/opm/lib/opm/budget/2018_2019_biennial_budget/budgetdocs/002.introduction.pdf">budget</a>. As such, it operates under the authority of a gubernatorial <a href="http://portal.ct.gov/en/Office-of-the-Governor/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2017/06-2017/Gov-Malloy-Signs-Executive-Order-to-Continue-Funding-State-Government-While-Budget-Talks-Continue" rel="noopener" target="_blank">executive order</a>, <a href="http://ctnonprofitalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a2017-EO-Resource-Revisions-8-18-17.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">updated</a> on August 18<sup>th</sup> to restore $40 million to services and programs provided by nonprofit organizations.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The state missed a key deadline on <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-connecticut-budget/connecticuts-deep-spending-cuts-in-effect-as-new-deadline-passes-idUSKCN1C61H1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">October 1<sup>st</sup></a>,
when the executive order zeroed out education funding for 85 school
districts and significantly reduced aid to 54 districts. With no county
governments, Connecticut’s structure forces its 169 self-governing
cities and towns to compete for state aid to supplement property taxes.
The continuing standoff has widespread implications as the state’s
financial crisis worsens. For example, an approved state budget includes
the funding Hartford needs to avoid <a href="http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/Hartford-Leaders-Warn-of-Possible-Bankruptcy-Filing-Without-a-State-Budget-443010353.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">bankruptcy</a> in the coming weeks. As just reported by the <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2017/10/16/budget-fight-threatens-credit-for-a-third-of-ct-municipalities/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>Connecticut Mirror</i></a>, the “budget fight threatens credit for a third of [Connecticut] municipalities.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Susan Haigh’s reporting for the Associated Press provided an update on the state budget process as of Sunday, October 15<sup>th</sup>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the past week, Democratic and Republican legislative
leaders have been holed up in the state Capitol, without Democratic Gov.
Dannel P. Malloy, combing line-by-line through budget documents. They
said they have been discussing ways to not only cover a projected $3.5
billion deficit in a roughly $40 billion two-year budget, but to make
lasting fiscal changes in hopes of stopping what’s become a cycle of
budget crises in one of the nation’s wealthiest states.</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Monday, October 16<sup>th</sup>, Malloy offered his <a href="http://portal.ct.gov/Office-of-the-Governor/Press-Room/Press-Releases/2017/10-2017/Gov-Malloy-Releases-New-Bare-Bones-Budget-Proposal" rel="noopener" target="_blank">fourth budget</a>
proposal for the new biennium asking the state’s General Assembly to
reduce tax increases by accepting even deeper cuts to town aid,
education and social services. Malloy presented his first budget on
February 8<sup>th</sup>, followed by revised two-year plans on May 15<sup>th</sup> and September 8<sup>th</sup>. Malloy continues to insist that the state meet its pension obligations, according to Haigh’s reporting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The governor, who expressed frustration Thursday over the
slowness of the process, has warned that he’s willing to veto another
budget, even a bipartisan one, if he believes it includes “gimmicks” to
cover the red ink, such as reducing payments to state employee pension
funds.</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/07/06/connecticut-budget-impasse-nonprofits-told-prepare-longer-haul/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>NPQ</i></a> reported several days after the Connecticut fiscal year began on July 1<sup>st</sup>
on what nonprofits might expect with no state budget. Haigh provides an
update on how the governor’s executive order reduced funding for
“social service programs, such as day services to people with
developmental disabilities and initiatives serving people leaving
prison.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Connecticut Mirror</i> offers perhaps the best daily update
on the budget process and the consequences of the impasse. Malloy’s
signature prison reform “<a href="https://ctmirror.org/tag/second-chance-society/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Second Chance Society</a>”
legislation is a national model for reducing penalties for drug
possession and helping people charged with nonviolent crimes to apply
for parole. Despite this exemplary commitment, the state’s Department of
Correction <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2017/08/01/human-services-cuts-take-effect-after-a-month-without-a-budget/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">lost 4.5 percent</a> in this fiscal year’s first-quarter funding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant, the executive director of <a href="http://www.familyreentry.org/">Family ReEntry</a>,
which helps inmates leaving prison and their families, said his agency
escaped specific cuts this month but said its non-residential behavioral
health programs were cut last year and services to former inmates are
diminishing across the state.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said he has seen hundreds of former inmates, including himself,
who were helped by mental health and addiction counselors as well as
housing and employment placements provided by state-funded non-profits.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“When I came out, I went to court-ordered drug and alcohol
counseling, which I did do in state here. Thank god it was available for
me,” Grant said. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“With the opioid epidemic that’s going on now and the
cutbacks of a lot of these services, there are a lot of sick and
suffering people out there. I had an opioid addiction. I’m clean and
sober 15 years this week actually, but I don’t know what would have
happened without the programs.”</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the state moves into its fourth month without a budget, the Connecticut Nonprofit Alliance provides tools and on its <a href="http://ctnonprofitalliance.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">website homepage</a>
to help people urge the state’s 187 legislators to pass a budget soon
that protects nonprofit programs and services.—Jim Schaffer</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reprinted from <a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/10/17/connecticut-budget-stalemate-makes-states-bad-inequities-worse/">Nonprofit Quarterly, Oct. 17, 2017</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic;">Philip Potter</span>
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Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Greenwich, CT, USA41.0262417 -73.62819639999997940.8346527 -73.950919899999974 41.2178307 -73.305472899999984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-73376829179108543382017-10-13T19:13:00.003-04:002017-10-18T12:12:48.332-04:00Criminal Justice from the Inside Out: Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant Launch New Criminal Justice Radio Show<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">New Haven Independent: </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Criminal Justice from the Inside Out</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">First & Third Fridays 9 am</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>livestreaming everywhere at:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <a href="http://newhavenindependent.org/">newhavenindependent.org</a></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Babz Rawls-Ivy is the editor of the Inner-City News, the host of
daily WNHH FM’s “LoveBabz LoveTalk,” and a frequent guest on WNHH shows.
Jeff Grant is the executive director of F<a href="http://www.familyreentry.org/">amily ReEntry</a>,
a social service organization in Bridgeport working with people who
have gotten out of prison, and helping to prevent them from going back
in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They’ve both also served prison sentences themselves. They are
now co-hosts of a new show on WNHH, “Criminal Justice Insider,” that
tackles criminal justice issues from the inside out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Criminal
Justice Insider” will air once a month on WNHH, featuring Rawls-Ivy,
Grant, and a series of guests as they talk about the lives of people in
prison and how it affects not only the prisoners themselves, but the
family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When one family member goes to prison, “the whole family goes to prison,” they agreed on their debut episode.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They
will also talk about the lives of people who have gotten out, and the
factors that contribute to them going back in — or staying out for good
by rebuilding their lives, a reality both of them have lived.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Click below to listen to or watch the first episode on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/new-haven-independent/criminal-justice-insider-10417">SoundCloud</a> and <a href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/new_show_sees_criminal_justice_from_the_inside_out">Facebook Live</a>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Entrepreneurship as a Precursor to Addiction: </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first paragraph of Scott Peck's book</span><i><span style="font-size: large;">, T</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><em>he Road Less Traveled </em>says simply, "Life is difficult."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's certainly true. For the Buddha suffering was the
first rule of life and Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that to live
was to suffer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And for no-one is this more true than for the entrepreneur.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last March, journalist Nadia Stewart of Global News reported
on the case of entrepreneur Rachel Degraw of Vancouver, British
Columbia. For nine years Degraw was the very model of the successful
entrepreneur, but she was, in fact, a closet junkie. Says Degraw, "My
addictions came from the pad of a doctor. I became dependent on opioids
for back pain, <em>but also for emotional pain.</em>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Addicts are no longer just those distant poor people who
live in ghettos. The new opiate addicts are increasingly successful
white collar business women and men. They are doctors. They are dentists
and architects. They are lawyers. They are often the upper middle class
and the rich. They are famous actors like Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And
they are entrepreneurs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, the opioid crisis is finally being recognized as a
national emergency. As of August, there is a new President's Commission
on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, and last week Florida
put in place seven day limits on opioid prescriptions that is tightly
controlled by a new statewide prescription database.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In July, <em>Crains'</em> reported that the "use and misuse"
of opioid prescriptions is rising dramatically. Over 11 million opioid
prescriptions were written in Michigan last year. Michigan is a state
with only 9.9 total citizens! According to a 2016 Centers For Disease
and Prevention study, opioid abuse cost employers $16.3 billion directly
in reduced productivity and disability, and another $14 billion billed
to private health insurers. And the problem is growing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opioid abusers, though only representing 4.5% of opioid
users in the United States, account for almost 50% of opioid spending,
according to Castlight Health of San Francisco. Over a third of
employers reported that prescription drug addiction was prevalent among
their employees and over two thirds of employers saw substance abuse as a
rapidly growing challenge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Crains' </em>documents a typical case:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Hussein Nasser spent hours every day working on
his knees [at his] carpet installation firm Empire Flooring. He went
home every day in pain. His knees ached every day....For relief, Nasser
turned to prescription opioids--first Percocet, then OxyContin.
Addiction took hold. Nasser's habit peaked to 300 milligrams of
Oxycontin per day, far higher than the average prescription of 20 mg a
day."</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eventually Nasser lost everything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a friend who had built a thriving dental practice,
owning two buildings in Brooklyn and employing many dentists and support
staff. He developed back pain woking on patients and, to control the
pain, he started writing himself prescriptions in higher and higher
dosages--codeine, dihydrocodeine, percocet, tramadol, methadone,
fentanyl, morphine, and oxycodone. To avoid police detection he bought
his opioids at pharmacies all over NYC. But, inevitably, he did get
caught, resulting in prosecution and bankruptcy.</span></span><br />
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entrepreneur in Connecticut. He founded an organization called
<a href="http://www.prisonist.org/">Prisonist.org </a>and is Executive Director of <a href="http://www.familyreentry.org/">Family ReEntry</a>. He is also a
former opioid addict and can speak with authority on entrepreneurial
suffering, shame, and addiction. He spent 14 months in a federal prison
for a financially motivated crime stemming from bad decisions made under
the dual influence of prescription drugs and financial pressure. Grant
headed a highly successful legal practice in Westchester County, New
York. <em>The Greenwich Sentinel</em> reports Grant as saying, "In the
course of rehabilitating an [achilles heel] injury, I got hooked on
prescription narcotics. Doctors were more than happy to continue to
prescribe them to me, and I took them for about ten years." He gradually
lost control of his firm and eventually couldn't meet payroll--at which
point he made up the shortfall by dipping into client escrow funds. He
lost his company, his marriage, his money, his respected position in the
community, his freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In prison Grant came to understand the nature of his
suffering. I think for most entrepreneurs a lonely suffering is part of
the process. (Constant fear of failure is perhaps our greatest
suffering.) It becomes so easy to become addicted to any number of
things in an effort to suffer less the existential pain of our fears.
And that is why the current epidemic of opioid addiction offers especial
danger to the entrepreneur who is tempted to escape her physical or
spiritual distress through opioids or any other addiction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">True entrepreneurial success is surely a matter of
enrichment of the soul as well as the plumping of the pocketbook. As
Helen Keller put it, "Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and
success achieved." Thank you, Helen.</span></span></div>
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waste facility of its kind to the city’s burgeoning eco-technology park,
touting 25 to 30 new jobs and a commitment to second chance
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“If you want to work hard, we have a job for you,” said Charlie Dippolito Jr., who owns Future Healthcare Systems.
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Based in a re-configured South Avenue factory space that has been
vacant for 17 years, the company has been up and running for about a
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Those gathered for the official ribbon cutting Thursday said
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He is working to add more clients, including the Yale-New Haven hospital system, which oversees Bridgeport Hospital.
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Re-fitting the 25,000-square-foot building took about 14 months and $3.5 million. </span></span><br />
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Dippolito led a bus tour from Bridgeport to his flagship location in
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Over the past few years, the city has been building what has been
dubbed an eco-technology park. The sweeping swath in Bridgeport’s South
End includes the largest fuel cell in the Western Hemisphere, the
largest liquified natural gas filling station on the East Coast and the
largest mattress recycling facility in Connecticut. </span></span><br />
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Jeff Grant, executive director of Bridgeport-based Family Re-Entry,
said he was pleased to see Future Healthcare is open to ex-offenders
looking for work. Fred Hodges, the organization’s community affairs
director, said that accounts for thousands coming back to Bridgeport
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“This is a huge, huge step for Bridgeport,” Grant said.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bridgeport, CT — (September 25, 2017) — The Board of Directors of
<a href="http://familyreentry.org/">Family ReEntry</a>, a nonprofit leader that assists families affected by the
criminal justice system, today announced the unanimous election of
Christian Morris as its new Board Chairperson.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Morris takes over at a critical juncture for the region’s leading
reentry service organization as it seeks to expand its programs,
frequency of counseling services, and increase its advocacy efforts –
all in the midst of state budget delays and inconsistencies.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s an honor to be elected and I’m dedicated to the success of
this organization,” Morris said. “Our goal is to continue to support all
of the members of society and their families through services that
restore dignity and renew families that have been impacted by
incarceration and the justice system.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Morris moves into the leadership position from his already
established position as a member of the Family ReEntry Board of
Directors. Family ReEntry gains Morris’ skills and knowledge of
healthcare, technology and financial management.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeff Grant, Executive Director of Family ReEntry, said, “We are very
excited to have Christian help to guide the future of Family ReEntry.
His business experience and passion for our mission will be a major
factor in our growth and success.”</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Currently, Morris, a resident of Fairfield, CT, is the Director or
Sales and Marketing for Greenwich-based AdminaHealth LLC, a healthcare
technology company specializing in vendor and claims administration for
self-funded healthcare plans.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prior to his position with AdminaHealth, Morris co-founded SmartPath
Labs, a technology and business advisory firm focused on new market
adoption and strategic partnerships for emerging technology companies.
His background also includes his role as Executive Vice President of
CometaWorks, a technology solutions company.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">About Family ReEntry: </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://familyreentry.org/">Family ReEntry’s</a> (FRE) mission is to develop,
implement, and share sustainable, cost-effective solutions for the
unprecedented numbers of people involved in the criminal justice system,
which empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities.
Family ReEntry<sup> SM</sup> began in 1984, as a reentry support group
for men at the Isaiah House in Bridgeport and has since grown to include
intervention, reentry, and family and children programs. Over the past
thirty-two years, effective community-based programs developed by Family
ReEntry, have significantly reduced the likelihood that clients will
re-offend, be re-arrested, or be re-incarcerated. Our programs comprise
three integrated sectors: Prevention, Intervention, and Reentry,
providing a spectrum of services designed to help break the cycle of
incarceration. FRE addresses the specific needs of each client and their
families through individualized case management and support services.
It works to create a positive social network for each client, towards
helping to make their transition from prison back into the community a
successful one and helping them towards a road of self-sufficiency,
while strengthening their families and the community. FRE’s programs
include: Domestic Violence Treatment and Education, Community Reentry,
Mentoring Programs and Intensive Outpatient Programs.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Family ReEntry was incorporated in 1984 as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit
organization in the State of Connecticut. It has an active and engaged
Board of committed trustees with diverse backgrounds and relevant
expertise.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Family ReEntry’s programs operate in strategic locations that
encompass eight municipal regions and judicial geographic areas, two
parole districts and five prisons. Approximately, sixty-percent of
those we serve are from greater Bridgeport – Connecticut’s largest
city. Offices are located in Bridgeport, Norwalk and New Haven.
Programs are also located in Stamford, Waterbury, New London and Norwich.</span></span></span></h5>
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to Family ReEntry’s Angela Medina, Kathy Browne, and Jeff Grant in
being chosen for the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Bridgeport, CT, USA41.1865478 -73.1951766999999941.0909468 -73.356538199999989 41.2821488 -73.033815199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-82549588589953854322017-08-20T12:28:00.001-04:002017-08-20T12:28:16.961-04:00Six Ways of Helping! Join Family ReEntry in Helping Children and Youth to Thive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Norwalk CT 06850<br />
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New Haven, CT 06515<br />
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<strong>Additional Program Locations:</strong><br />
Stamford<br />
Waterbury<br />
Derby<br />
New London<br />
Norwich</span></span><br />
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<strong>Norwalk Office:</strong><br />
9 Mott Avenue, Suite 104<br />
Norwalk CT 06850<br />
<a href="tel:2038380496"><span style="color: white;">(203) 838-0496</span></a><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<strong>New Haven Office:</strong><br />
50 Fitch Street, Suite 202<br />
New Haven, CT 06515<br />
<a href="tel:2033619166"><span style="color: white;">(203) 361-9166</span></a><br /><br />
<strong>Additional Program Locations:</strong><br />
Stamford<br />
Waterbury<br />
Derby<br />
New London</span></span>Rev Jeff Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06756187600070494190noreply@blogger.com0Bridgeport, CT, USA41.1865478 -73.1951766999999941.0909468 -73.356538199999989 41.2821488 -73.033815199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510238602171978754.post-23489040130511545862017-08-20T12:17:00.000-04:002017-08-20T12:17:14.188-04:00Join Family ReEntry in Helping Children and Youth to Thrive<br />
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<span style="color: #bd3c99; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal;">Did you know that children and teens that have positive adult connections outside their family fare better off emotionally, socially, and academically?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Research has shown that healthy relationships with adults can facilitate positive youth development and reduce the likelihood of negative behaviors including delinquency and anti-social behaviors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">For the last 15 years, Family ReEntry has provided mentoring support with a focus on prevention and intervention to help vulnerable children and youth who are impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration. In this last year, Family ReEntry has demonstrated positive outcomes for more than 100 children by providing one-to-one mentoring support and case management services. Mentors are volunteers who are able to build caring connections with children and teens, helping to encourage healthy behaviors, enhancing social & problem solving skills, and teaching effective strategies for coping with stress. Children who feel they are supported will have better outcomes; and mentoring is a proven strategy that has demonstrated positive gains for children and youth at-risk.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bd3c99; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal;">Through Family ReEntry’s work, we have seen the following outcomes for children and youth:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #314257; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Approximately 70% of youth matched with a mentor reduced their engagement in risky behaviors such as truancy; use of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs; fighting; and delinquency.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #314257; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">95% of youth surveyed reported experiencing a strong relational connection to their mentor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #314257; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">As a result of mentoring, children and youth also demonstrated increased ability to problem-solve, demonstrated greater ability to control strong (negative) emotions, and worried less overall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bd3c99; font-size: 20px;">As a new school year approaches, FRE is looking to you and the community at-large for support to improve lives of less fortunate children and youth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e67a27; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;">Be a force of change: become a volunteer mentor; help to fund a mentor match ($2600 annually/ $200 monthly/ $50 per week); sponsor a group enrichment event for youth & mentors; or donate to our Back to School Supplies Collection.</span></div>
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