Sweet Beginnings

In this week’s article called How Beekeeping Jobs are Giving Ex-cons in Chicago a Second Chance, by Casey Tolan explains how having ex-cons work for Sweet Beginnings decreases the recidivism rate. In fact the recidivism rate in Illinios is fifty five percent. The ex-cons that work for Sweet Beginnings only have a recidivism rate of four percent. After reading this article I realized that there are a lot of positive things about this program. Some of the ex-cons that work here have never had a job before. Putting Sweet Beginnings on a resume will help find another job. The employees feel like the other employees at Sweet Beginnings are like family. This is important because many people in jail feel like they do not have any family. When they get out of prison and work at Sweet Beginnings it is a good experience to realize that there are people that care about them. Another positive about Sweet Beginnings is that it is profit about. In fact it makes about nine thousand a year. I realize that nine thousand a year is not a lot, but at least it is something. Especially when most of the programs only spend money. There are so many positive outcomes because of the Sweet Beginnings and I believe that there should be so many more opportunities like that.