“After me and my family got evicted, I’m out of here. It’s hard to find a job, so this all I know. This is the first thing I go to.” Says Ross- a resident of Nicetown, Philadelphia, PA: which is among one of the areas hardest stricken by the effects of mass-incarceration and the lack of opportunities that accompany with it. Ross –a good-looking young man with tattoos up to his neck- recently finished time in prison and has no high school diploma, leading him to dealing drugs as the streets continue to flare. Jondhi Harrell, the executive director to Center for Returning Citizens (TCRC), has been engaged in helping Ross to abandon the ‘street corner’. He provided Ross with a $100 moving job and allows him to access the computers in the front
