JustDane’s Just Bakery program works with individuals who have significant barriers to employment, including former inmates.
Where do people go after being released from prison? For some, it’s Madison’s homeless shelter on Zeier Road, operated by local nonprofit Porchlight.
“It’s more common for us to see folks who are discharging out of jail or prison in the Dane County area, but we have people who are bussed or cabbed from other areas of the state or other states, who are coming from incarceration and then sent to our shelter,” Kim Sutter, the nonprofit’s director of emergency services, tells Isthmus…