“I saw from the inside how people were failing and coming back to prison, and I felt I had the opportunity to do something to change that,” says Christine Money, executive director of Kindway.

He saw them coming.

Paul Sparks had security cameras all around the perimeter of the house he rented on the Hilltop so the SWAT officers storming up the lawn held no element of surprise. He scrambled into the rafters of the home where he’d been dealing drugs, and he squished himself into the insulation. Yet when a couple of cops yanked him down…

“Every one of the Kindway employees I’ve had the pleasure of working with has been polite, well-mannered and well-spoken. They are dedicated and hardworking and wanting to make a difference.”