Returning home can be a bumpy process for many returning citizens. Too often times they come home to homelessness and face elevated employment, health and mental health challenges, according to M.A.D.E. Institute’s Executive Director Leon El-Alamin. Homes mean hope for many formerly incarcerated men and women “When basic needs like housing aren’t met, individuals are […]
By age 11 Craig Samuels felt doomed to a life of failure. Having been physically and verbally abused, he began accepting hurtful condemnations as his truth and his future. In some ways his mother’s emotional attacks were even harder for Samuels to endure than his father’s heavy hands. “At the time, I couldn’t understand, ‘What […]
He went down in a hail of gunfire. At 21, Leon Wilson’s life as a flashy drug dealer and partier, who’d just bought champagne from a Saginaw Street market, appeared near its end. He bled from his head and back, wounded by masked men in a drive-by. Two weeks later Wilson woke from a coma […]