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When Fortune Shines Its Light

With the philosophy that no one should be defined by the worst thing he ever did, The Fortune Society advocates for, and represents the true benefits of, restorative justice.

July 11, 2019 at 11:45 AM

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By Joel Cohen and Dale J. Degenshein | July 11, 2019 at 11:45 AM

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There is an old Phil Ochs song, covered by, among others, the great Joan Baez:

Show me a prison, show me a jail, Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale And I’ll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there but for fortune, may go you or I.

—“There but for Fortune,” 1963

When one looks to The Fortune Society, Phil Ochs’s words take on renewed meaning. Founded in 1967, Fortune began as an educational vehicle which sponsored talks around the country about incarceration. An uncomfortable subject, to be sure. But its founder, David Rothenberg, knew it to be necessary from producing the evocative Off-Broadway play, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, which dealt frankly with a man’s experience in prison.

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