Due to hundreds of emails, letters and phone calls from prisoners panicking due to halfway house closures, CAN-DO conducted a survey and the results were worse than we expected. Even prisoners who were leaving the very next day have had their halfway house dates pulled. Many had signed what we believe are binding contracts. To date, there are no good answers as to why this is happening. Cedric Lamont Dean is just one story out of hundreds that we focus on in this Huffpost Op Ed by CAN-DO president Amy Povah
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