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Career Opportunities with Friends Outside
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positions
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New
Re-entry services in sjc!
We now provide expanded re-entry services
at our Friends and Family Neighborhood Center. You can learn more
here!
- On any given day, there are an estimated 2 million children in America with at least one parent in prison or jail.
- 1 in every 100 adults in America is in jail or prison.
- An estimated 856,000 children in California have a parent currently in California’s adult criminal justice system, including approximately 195,000 who have parents in a state prison.
- For over 55 years, Friends Outside has provided services to incarcerated and reentering people, their families and communities.