Dennis Gaddy of the Community Success Initiative on second chances, legislation to improve reentry

For most people who leave North Carolina prisons each year, readjusting to life on the outside is incredibly difficult. A record of incarceration can prevent people from landing apartments or jobs. And even people who have been arrested but never convicted can also have a hard time shaking that history when their mugshots appear forever online.

Recently, in an effort to convince lawmakers to enact reforms that could address some of these roadblocks, advocates gathered at the state legislature for a Second Chance lobby day, and during the event, NC Newsline  caught with one of the leaders of the effort, the executive director of the North Carolina Community Success Initiative, Dennis Gaddy.