Provide letters of support and sponsorship from other former inmates.

Include positive statements by formerly incarcerated individuals dispersed throughout the resource:

Been in the game since I was 12. By the time I was 22, I was through. I gave up the game because I had children and I didn’t want them comin’ into the jail to see me. I’m soft but I know where I come from.¹

¹ New York City Commission on Human Rights, Making It Happen & Staying Home (2005), New York: New York City Commission on Human Rights, p. 5.