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This potential flood of ex-convicts re-entering society, on top of the more than 700,000 inmates who return each year, poses major challenges for government agencies and nonprofit organizations struggling with budget crises. Even without the expected surge of prisoners coming home, their efforts haven't proved particularly successful at stopping the revolving door of recidivism. Until recently, "most people got 50 bucks, a bus ticket and let out the door without any preparation - they land back in their old neighborhoods at four in the morning where there's drugs - so what would we expect in terms...
...Harlem known as the Castle - a former Catholic girls' school, yeshiva and onetime crack house. Though the organization is dealing with its own budget cutbacks, it recently broke ground for a $43 million mixed-use building right next door, which will have 114 units. As more ex-cons re-enter society, the Fortune Society expects it will soon be working with about 5,000 people a year, up from about 3,500 now. "I'd be in a problem situation or maybe even dead if it weren't for Fortune Society," says Victor Chapman, 44, a Castle resident who served...
...from countries with long-established histories of state-sponsored circus schools: they call on Argentina and Colombia for their renowned high-wire acts, China and North Korea for acrobats, and Mongolia and Russia for horse riders. (Interestingly, they don't need to import bearded ladies.) About 500 circus performers enter the U.K. annually, and roughly half of them must obtain short-term visas because they come from outside the European Union...
...four teams still alive in the tournament, Harvard had the easiest time in the quarterfinals, blanking Cornell in consecutive contests. But the upstart Engineers enter the game with some momentum as well, coming off a weekend sweep of third-seeded Princeton...
...tournament is not about the money. I’ve filled out brackets every year since 2001, but only in the first three years of high school did I enter large pools with several hundred dollars at stake. With odds so small, I won nothing...