{"id":23484,"date":"2010-12-17T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_retired_executive_helps_inmates_stay_out_of_jail\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:00:36","slug":"npr_a_retired_executive_helps_inmates_stay_out_of_jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23484","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A Retired Executive Helps Inmates Stay Out Of Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jermaine Robinson got out of Rikers Island jail last March, he had nowhere to live and few real prospects for finding a job. But he did have something that would prove almost as valuable: The address of the storefront Harlem office where Getting Out and Staying Out operates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without them, I wouldn&#8217;t have gotten where I am right now,&#8221; 23-year-old Robinson says.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit, founded by retired cosmetics executive Mark Goldsmith six years ago, has helped some 1,500 young men incarcerated at Rikers chart new lives.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 20 percent of those who go through the program return to prison, compared with nearly 60 percent for Rikers as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/15\/132061464\/retired-executive-helps-inmates-stay-out-of-jail\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jermaine Robinson got out of Rikers Island jail last March, he had nowhere to live and few real prospects for finding a job. But he did have something that would prove almost as valuable: The address of the storefront<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23484\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,103,135,589,149,114,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-prisonprison-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}