{"id":15809,"date":"2013-08-20T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15809"},"modified":"2013-08-20T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:40:13","slug":"how-moores-tornado-recovery-can-get-ex-felons-back-on-their-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/20\/how-moores-tornado-recovery-can-get-ex-felons-back-on-their-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Moore’s Tornado Recovery Can Get Ex-felons Back On Their Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n

The North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Moore, Okla. continues to rebuild following May’s deadly tornado, and will now enlist the free help of some former inmates in the process.<\/p>

How to deal with the tornado’s destruction still dominates Moore city council meetings, including Monday’s, where\u00a0The Norman Transcript<\/em>‘s Joy Hampton reports<\/a> a one year contract was approved between the city and the Center for Employment Opportunities:<\/p>\n

The group can provide the partnership opportunity at no cost because of a National Emergency Grant through the Department of Labor.<\/p>

… City Manager Steve Eddy said the level of supervision makes him comfortable with the program. Supervisors are CEO staff and are not criminal offenders.<\/p><\/blockquote>

StateImpact visited CEO’s Tulsa office for a story in 2012<\/a> and found out just how difficult it is for convicted felons to rejoin society once they’ve served their time. Finding a job can be the key to breaking the cycle of crime and poverty.<\/p>

CEO<\/a> provides transportation to interviews, teaches ex-offenders basic life skills and places them in transitional jobs. The jobs don\u2019t pay a lot, but it\u2019s better than just cutting them loose.<\/p>

At the time, Tulsa County CEO Director Kelly Doyle told StateImpact the program had been proven to reduce recidivism by “upwards of 20 percent.”<\/p>

That was when CEO just had the one office in Oklahoma. Since then, it opened an office in Oklahoma City, which will provide the workers for the partnership with Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to deal with the tornado’s destruction still dominates Moore city council meetings, including Monday’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":15825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[371,539],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15809"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15835,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809\/revisions\/15835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}