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Former inmate-turned-chef returns to jail to teach others his craft

It took him a decade, but former inmate Colin Bramlett Sr. has returned to Brown Creek Correctional Facility. But this time, he’s not there as a resident. Bramlett regularly returns to the correctional center in Polkton, North Carolina, to teach the culinary skills he learned behind bars – skills that helped him leave prison with

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Federal Judge Creates a Rehabilitation Certificate for Ex-Offender

Last year, Brooklyn-based federal district court judge John Gleeson wanted to help a woman; he had sentenced her 14 years earlier on a federal criminal fraud charge (she had posed as an auto crash victim for an insurance fraud ring that faked accidents). The woman (in her mid-50s, a naturalized Haitian immigrant referred to only

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