Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Charleston Visits Turning Leaf
We were honored to host a group from Leadership Charleston for a tour of Turning Leaf last week. Leadership Charleston is a yearlong program that engages participants in experiences that...
Turning Leaf Visits Columbia Rotary Club
“I’ve always had a strong sense of fairness and equality, and an equally strong belief that people should get a fair shake in life,” said Turning Leaf Founder and Executive...
Mace Bill Would Modernize Due Process Rights (Post & Courier)
The most basic purpose of our justice system is to convict and punish the guilty while protecting the innocent and safeguarding the rights of all Americans. As part of that...
The Turning Leaf Project Aims to Break Cycle (Sisters of Charity SC)
Communities often address crime through a cycle of prison time and release. This cycle leads them back to old habits, separated from their families and a drain on tax payer...
Turning Leaf is raising the stakes, and its profile, in recidivism (Post & Courier)
An audience at the Mount Pleasant library listens silently as three men calmly talk about violence, the crimes they’ve committed, the drugs they’ve sold — and the reason they quit. She’s...
Starting Anew (Charleston Mag)
Getting out of prison isn’t easy. There’s parole and probation to navigate, child custody issues, securing housing, finding a job, and avoiding the temptation to fall back into criminal habits....
Lowcountry nonprofit helps ex-convicts re-enter society, workforce (ABC 4 News)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Turning Leaf Project is a group in Charleston working to help formerly incarcerated men complete probation and get acclimated back into society. Aulzue Fields spent the...
Training the Brain to Stay out of Jail (The Marshall Project)
Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty, violence and loss. His mother, grandmother and brother all died when he...
Unless those at the top act, South Carolina prisons will perpetuate crime problem (Post & Courier)
South Carolina prisons are not rehabilitating criminals — they’re training them. In most of the state’s roughest correctional facilities, the yard is not so different from life on the street. Inmates...
Saying goodbye to the streets, and prison (Post & Courier)
Marty Hamilton has spent 30 years behind bars, and he’s only 47. The North Charleston native has been in prison seven times, and twice spent a year in the county...
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