van the company is that the organization that you've heard our guest talk about inner city muslim action network and they're the ones that have the green reentry program that city he were part of one of the founding members of that this is a ten aisha coleman and she talks to us about what some of these returning citizens often face. i believe the main difficulties of being a returning citizen is the stigma that comes with the title of being a returning service and. people tend to judge you on your past as opposed to trying to help you really cultivate and figure out what your future is gonna look like. when you walk around with this dark cloud and it comes with not forgiving yourself for whatever mistake you may may or may not have made but i think it's really important as a returning citizen to really see your future self to forgive yourself for your past and to look at how you can be a better person in the future so justin as the filmmaker behind this were you surprised that difficulty or is that the reason you decided to tackle this. yeah i mean it was definitely one of the reasons i decided

today for the first time we have covered the program you're talking about with inner city muslim action network it's called the green reentry program but in the line there can you describe what that program is yes sure so the the green reentry program essentially identifies positive role models it within the prison that are prisoners that are coming out to give them a safe space to live and then also in addition give them green rehabilitation skills and constructions so they are rehabilitating the law paid homes on in the south side of chicago that have been for foreclosed on and they do solar panel laying they do you know recycled flooring and materials and kind of giving the ideas that give kind of cutting edge job skills so that way people can kind of get on their feet and become self-sufficient moms and i want to go out something that is really relevant to what it's from the pew research center is quite an old piece of research religion in prisons a fifty state survey of prison chaplains and then here which groups and crying and shrinking top of the list muslims who roaming or staying the s

band the company is that the organization that you've heard our guest talk about inner city muslim action network and they're the ones that have the green reentry program that's a dig you are part of one of the founding members of that this is a ten aisha coleman and she talks to us about what some of these returning citizens often face. i believe the main difficulties of being a returning citizen is the stigma that comes with the title of being a returning such as some. people tend to judge you on your past as opposed to trying to help you really cultivate and figure out what your future is gonna look like. when you walk around with this dark cloud and it comes with not forgiving yourself for whatever mistake you may may or may not have made but i think it's really important as a returning citizen to really see your future self to forgive yourself for your past and to look at how you can be a better person in the future. so just soon as the filmmaker behind this were you surprised that difficulty or is that the reason you decided to tackle this. yeah i mean it was definitely one of the reasons i

today for the first time we have covered the program you're talking about with the inner city muslim action network it's called the green reentry program but in the line there can you describe what that program is. yes sure so the the green reentry program essentially identifies positive role models it within the prison that are prisoners that are coming out to give them a safe space to live and then also in addition give them green rehabilitation skills and constructions so they are rehabilitating the locket homes on in the south side of chicago that have been for foreclosed on and they do solar panel laying they do you know recycled flooring and materials and kind of giving the ideas the good kind of cutting edge job skills so that way people can kind of get on their feet and become self-sufficient moms and i want to show our audience something that is really relevant to what you do is from the pew research center is quite an old piece of research religion in prisons a fifty state survey of prison chaplains and then here which groups and crying and shrinking top of the list muslims who roaming or

at a band the company is the organization that you've heard our guest talk about inner city muslim action network and they're the ones that have the green reentry program that's a dick you are part of one of the founding members of that this is a ten aisha coleman and she talks to us about what some of these returning citizens often face. i believe the main difficulties of being a returning citizen is the stigma that comes with the title of being a returning such as some. people tend to judge you on your past as opposed to trying to help you really cultivate and figure out what your future is gonna look like. when you walk around with this dark cloud and it comes with not forgiving yourself for whatever mistake you may may or may not have made but i think it's really important as a returning citizen to really see your future self to forgive yourself for your past and to look at how you can be a better person in the future. so just soon as the filmmaker behind this were you surprised that difficulty or is that the reason you decided to tackle this. yeah i mean it was definitely one of the reasons