Ex-offenders can be saved from life of crime, prison / The Times-Union, 22 Jan 2007
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"The Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco is fashioned like a kibbutz, it is a place where former convicts live in a housing complex and run businesses so that they can get a grasp on what it means to be part of a real community and the power that lies in being able to build it up rather than batter it down. The centerpiece of it all is the Delancey Street Restaurant, which is staffed entirely by ex-convicts and which has become a culinary fixture in the Bay Area.
There, former criminals find their strength in the power to create. Not to hurt or kill.
"People say that power corrupts, but nothing corrupts more than powerlessness," says a former prison psychologist."