The non-profit organization will welcome women released from local jails and state prisons, as those facilities attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has granted pardons to seven people, including Susan H. Burton, a former inmate from East L.A. who now helps other women transition from prison to society.
It took six visits to prison before Susan Burton found the support she needed to break the incarceration cycle. Determined to help other women like herself, she founded A New Way of Life Reentry Project in South Los Angeles in the late 1990s.
On December 16, Burton will inaugurate the SAFE Housing Network by welcoming activists from around the country to a two-day replication training session in Los Angeles; it will be the first of multiple training sessions that will continue throughout 2019 and 2020.
L.A. agency marks 20th anniversary of helping women rebuild lives after prison