How community care is keeping North Carolinians out of prison—for good

How community care is keeping North Carolinians out of prison—for good

Why reentry is harder than looks—and what most people don’t see. Bobby Harrington doesn’t flinch when he talks about the six times he went to prison.  “Not because I was a bad person,” he said, “just lacking guidance, direction, and just trying to figure out life.” Raised by a single mother in Raleigh, Harrington didn’t have a roadmap. What he did have was a hunger to belong. “A lot of kids, especially Black and brown children, we don’t have tha…