Disrupting the Cycle: Re-entry Leaders Push Post-Incarceration Reform at Mississippi Capitol

Date:  03-07-2022 With an objective of "disrupting the cycles of incarceration" the Mississippi Center for Re-entry teamed up with other re-entry organizations to advocate for bills that will help people coming out of prison

From Mississippi Free Press: Cynetra Freeman returned to her Tampa Fla. home on Jan. 4, 2010, after completing her day’s classes at the University of South Florida. Then-25-year-old college junior had been studying criminology to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a lawyer. Shortly after she entered her house that cool Monday afternoon, however, the Tampa Police Department SWAT team surrounded her house, burst her door open and handcuffed her. “The day I was arrested—oh, it was frightening—because of the way that I got arrested,” Freeman told the Mississippi Free Press on Feb. 24, 2022, at the Mississippi State Capitol complex. “You would’ve thought I was like some real hard criminal because of the way they surrounded my house.” “It was a group of about 20 officers from the SWAT team; they all had their guns drawn,” she recounted. “I don’t know what was said, but they treated me like I was a real hard case, like a murderer or something.” Continue reading >>>