We've spent this month sharing the data. Now here's the bottom line. 📊 ✅ Employment reduces recidivism dramatically — RAND Corporation ✅ Stable housing reduces rearrest by 40% — Urban Institute ✅ Mental health support is the foundation that makes both possible — SAMHSA ✅ It costs $148.67/day to incarcerate someone in NC — NC Dept. of Adult Correction ✅ 1.9 million children have a parent behind bars right now — The Sentencing Project Every one of those statistics has a Charlotte address. Second chances aren't a program. They're a community decision. 💚 When employers open doors, when donors fund the work, when neighbors choose dignity over suspicion — that's when desistance happens. That's when the cycle breaks. That's when the math finally works in our favor. CCT Charlotte's LifeWorks! Supportive Employment, Center for Women, and behavioral health services are doing this work every single day — because building people is always better than building prisons. building people, not p...