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Richard Celeste has worked to improve the lot of battered women for much of his public career -- even turning his former home into a shelter for them. Last week, in a dramatic final act before relinquishing the Ohio governorship, he granted clemency to 25 abused women convicted of killing or assaulting their mates. The move, the first such mass commutation in the nation, was hailed by women's rights groups as a major victory in the fight to treat violence-prone battered women as victims, not criminals. But many prosecutors charged that the action would encourage more abused women...
...park in Phoenix showed me how to make a home out of cardboard boxes. Not a home, exactly, but something like a backyard playhouse built by an ingenious child. The cardboard boxes interlocked, and the shelter, secret and cozy, kept out the cold of the Arizona night. The man, named Ernest, had once been an engineer at the Boeing...
...beyond shelter. Providing a roof for the night is not enough, and in many cities the shelters are not full. Homeless people need a place that is safe and that addresses their needs. Drug addicts need treatment; the mentally ill need guidance; single mothers need help with child rearing; most homeless people need job training and health care. Don't make them commute all over town...
...nuns knew that many homeless women have trouble moving directly from a shelter into a place of their own, even if apartments are available -- and affordable. A few months on the streets can leave a person deeply alienated and frightened of returning to "normal" life. Through self-esteem seminars, employment training, drug counseling and other programs, women are prepared to return to the job market, retrieve children from foster care and set up homes...
...alcohol and drug use, while 85% of the residents had been physically or sexually abused. This halfway house was their first experience of safety -- and for many, of responsibility as well. "This place saved my life," says Lynn Morozko, who sells her plasma and works at a women's shelter while earning a degree in design engineering. "A lot of people think homelessness is a type of social Darwinism," she says. "But it isn't stupid people who are homeless. It's that we hit walls that we can't get over by ourselves." Fortunately, Transitional Housing is perfecting...