BLK ALERTS - Ex-Inmate Buys Abandoned Prison To Build A Place For 2nd Chances

BLK ALERTS - Ex-Inmate Buys Abandoned Prison To Build A Place For 2nd Chances

Source: Photo courtesy of Kerwin Pittman’s Instagram / Kerwin Pittman Former inmate Kerwin Pittman is making history. The activist and social justice advocate became the first formerly incarcerated person in U.S. history to purchase a prison, which he plans to turn into a transitional housing and workforce development facility called the Recidivism Reduction Campus. According to Spectrum News, the Wayne County Correctional Center in Goldsboro, N…

Ex-Inmate Buys Prison To Build A Place For 2nd Chances

Source: Photo courtesy of Kerwin Pittman’s Instagram / Kerwin Pittman Former inmate Kerwin Pittman is making history. The activist and social justice advocate became the first formerly incarcerated person in U.S. history to purchase a prison, which he plans to turn into a transitional housing and workforce development facility called the Recidivism Reduction Campus. According to Spectrum News, the Wayne County Correctional Center in Goldsboro, N…

Former Black Inmate Purchases Prison and Turns It into A Center for Second Chance Rehabilitation

A former inmate in the United States has turned a powerful personal experience into a mission for change after purchasing a former prison facility with plans to transform it into a rehabilitation and training centre for individuals reentering society. Kerwin Pittman, who previously served more than a decade behind bars, recently acquired the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro. The purchase marks what advocates say is the first known i…