The addicted get a “Second Chance”
Faces and Voices of Recovery, a national recovery advocacy organization, based in Washington, D.C., has reported that the Second Chance Act has passed Congress, as of March 11, and is headed to the desk of President Bush. Bush has expressed his support for the legislation and is expected to sign the bill into law.
The bill is designed to help individuals returning to communities from the criminal justice system get their lives back on track. Former prisoners would receive job training, literacy training, addiction treatment, counseling, housing and mentoring services under the bill.
Our hats off to Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL] and his cosponsors for authoring this important piece of legislation. By treating addiction on equal footing with other diseases, this bill is not only beneficial to our brothers and sisters reentering society, but to every addict seeking recovery.
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March 17th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Bravo for the Second Chance Act.
March 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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