NEW YORK: A group tasked with providing services to the formerly incarcerated, is to use an ex-prison to achieve its objectives.
The program coordinator plans to use the facility to provide a myriad of services to ex-convicts including temporary housing, job training and health care. It will also provide job opportunities in a full-scale kitchen with catering service and a green businesses incubator. The roof is expected to host beehives. Two of the floors will focus on temporary housing and another floor will be dedicated to more long-term housing for elderly former inmates…