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  2ND CHANCE NOLA

Greater New Orleans Area Online Resources
"Get Out and Stay Out"


Cornerstone Builders

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​Cornerstone Builders is a re-entry program for formerly incarcerated men and women based on ​rehabilitation through service.  Sponsored by Catholic Charities of New Orleans, this prisoner re-entry program acts as the foundation of a transformative experience that benefits not only the individual, but also the families and victims of crimes and society. 

​Cornerstone's 
Re-Entry 72 program provides support services to persons within the first 72 hours of release from local correctional facilities. They also provide free family bus rides to prisons through their Bus Project and mentorship to children whose parents are incarcerated via n empowering  Kids Mentoring Program. 

Ronnie Moore is the Director of Cornerstone Builders. He can be reached at (504) 451-8351 or via email at rmoore@ccano.org.

Cornerstone Builders Website

The First 72+

PictureCalvin Duncan, Co-Founder and President of the Board of Directors of the First 72+, leaving prison in 2011.
Learning to re-adjust to life outside prison walls is a process and the First 72+ works to stop the cycle of incarceration by creating pathways to independence and self-sustainability.  This organization is focused on practical help-- providing transitional housing, re-entry programs, and a supportive community for people coming out of prison. 

Residential and non-residential clients of the First 72+ are referred by the Parole Board, local attorneys, legal organizations, state and federal courts, and direct inquiries from currently incarcerated people and people recently released.

​During the first three days the First 72+ supports clients with a ride home from prison, clothes, food, rides to social services offices to get state identification, social security cards, enrollment in public benefits, visits with parole/probation, and healthcare.

The First 72+ builds off of the experiences of Formerly Incarcerated People (FIP) to help others transition out of prison and build for the future. Founded by six men who have all personally experienced the criminal justice system and helped one another upon release, the First 72+ aims to stop the cycle of  
First 72+ website
incarceration that has lead Louisiana to having the highest per capita prison population in the world. Click on the button above to go to this organization's website.

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