Friday, June 9, 2006
IS THERE LIFE AFTER PRISON?
Yes, but...

Sometimes Freedom is Trap!
Like,
when you've been in prison
for years and years,
when you've been dehumanized
at every turn,
when you've survived
by becoming a robot,
when you're released with
no money,
when you have few or no
job skills,
when there's no such place
as home,
when old friends are gone or
must be avoided,

then freedom is a fantasy.
It's just another trap!

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Welcome to the Web site of Project COPE(Congregation +Offender Partnership Enterprise). We’re glad you're here. Please check our Calendar for upcoming events.

In the course of such human events, we the people of Project COPE hold these truths to be self-evident:

• the obstacles faced by many being released from prison are so overwhelming that a productive life without crime seems impossible to achieve by oneself;

• within the religious community there are enough caring people and sufficient resources to help ex-offenders deal with and overcome these threatening obstacles.
The Challenge is to make the right connections.
The process is simple:

• Project COPE interviews and screens applicants soon to be released from prison and selects those most likely to succeed with a little help from some friends.

•Project COPE recruits and trains congregation-based teams of volunteers who are willing to be those friends during the trauma of community re-entry.

•Project COPE connects one team of volunteers with one ex-offender of their choice and shepherds their partnership for one year.

If you do not find the information you need by following the links above, please e-mail us at office@projcope.org or call 314-389-4804.