Two years later she was invited to work in a plastic and reconstructive surgeon s office in Toronto. She worked there for 10 years and then moved to Vancouver to seek out the realities of one of her favourite books called Grass Beyond the Mountains. Sharon said, I had 13 cents in my pocket when I arrived in Vancouver. I landed a job at the Vancouver General Hospital and eventually I found a motel owner that would extend me credit until my first paycheck came in. I still wanted to live in the country so I found a caretakers job on a big farm in Haney. It was my job to look after the horses and the chickens. I lived in what I called a small shack until I found work at the Maple Ridge hospital as a stenographer.
alluding to there, things like allowing people to be incarcerated closer to their families. we now have people that are literally many days drive away, and we have more women incarcerated than ever before, more mothers, so that is, i think, something that almost everyone would agree on. it also has, as he was saying, more opportunities for people, while they are incarcerated, to get training, to get drug and alcohol rehabilitation, to anger management, mental health, all of these things that would give people possibilities for basically redemption, when they get out. ways to have a job, and hopefully a lot less. in terms of sentencing reform, they are looking at friendly, draconian mandatory minimums that were in the 94 crime bill, they are not taking those away away. they are giving judges some
the programs include computer, literacy, ged, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation. listening means not only do i hear what you say, but i understand what you are saying. but one program aims to reach inmates by fostering relationships and teaching them to take responsibility for others. operation new hope uses nonviolent offenders to train dogs that the local humane society considers difficult to adopt. this is class number 30, and what we hope to achieve by this is we want to save these dogs lives. lieutenant brooks is one of the jail s training officers. he also founded an overseas operation new hope. all these dogs at one point in time had been slated to be euthanized. the reason that they re not euthanized is that you guys have agreed to come into this program and obedience train these dogs. these two are puppies. that means that they re still in
in savannah, georgia, this stay in jail is not their first. chief deputy roy harris says that after 35 years as a law enforcement officer, the high rate of recidivism among inmates has helped change his philosophy about corrections. one of the things that bothers me the most is last year 70% of our inmates had prior felony arrests and had been in this facility. the year before it was 8%. that is way too many. the same people keep coming back over and over. that shows us something is not working. i think as a society we really need to take a hard look at that. yes, many of them need to be locked up. but the bulk of our people here made dumb choices. a remedy for that, we run 12 programs at this facility which are geared to help inmates do better when they get out, to help them get off drugs, to get jobs. i think that s a worthwhile program. the programs include computer, literacy, ged, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.