Daily News | The ‘first chance’ culture at Brown’s ShopRite | Morning Newsletter
Careem Hines landed one his first real jobs at 35 years old — after years of jail stints for drug, assault, and gun offenses, and a seven-year sentence after a probation violation.
At 44, he now helps run the ShopRite in West Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood as an assistant grocery manager. People who got a second chance at life, like Hines, have become a major piece of Philadelphia mayoral candidate Jeff Brown’s political platform.Philadelphia is home to 400,000 people with convictions and criminal records. About 40,000 come home from incarceration each year.
Brown’s Super Stores partner with organizations like Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity to provide their employees with record expungement and pardon services at no cost to workers.
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