An honorably discharged veteran who served time in prison gets a second chance working at state veterans cemeteries through Maryland program
The program is part of an effort to reduce barriers and help people in prison reentering communities, the Maryland agencies said.
Capt. Tiffany Evans, director of Public Safety Works, said participants do a wide range of landscaping work, including lawn mowing, groundskeeping and cemetery restoration. Once they complete the prerelease program, they are hired full time at a state veterans cemetery, she said. Maryland has five state veterans cemeteries in Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Baltimore and Allegany counties.
When a state position identification number became available for Brewer at Cheltenham, Superintendent Dimitra Johnson said, she knew she wanted him on her team. While in prison, Brewer became a tutor to help others in prison learn how to read and write, joined a Quaker community and helped train a service dog through a program that provides the dogs to wounded veterans.
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