Housing Works has long provided housing and services to help formerly incarcerated people get their lives on track. Now, through a federal government grant, Housing Works has implemented an innovative new program that sets people up with care before they get out of prison. The Housing Works program targets HIV-positive and high risk minority ex-offenders moving to New York City. The program has just begun in September, and seven people have already been connected with care and treatment at Housing Works.
“I always tell people that planning for re-entry starts the day you’re locked up,” said Ray Rios, Housing Works central intake/outreach program director.
And the good will goes both ways.
The prisoners at Otisville Correctional Facility held an AIDSWalk on World AIDS Day (December 1) where one-quarter of the prison participated in the walk. They raised $240 for Housing Works. The inmates joked that they wish they could have given $240,000; they all make less than 25 cents a day.
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