[Fredslist] Corey Bearak AWARD

[Corey Bearak]

Phil,

Thanks but all I did was know to put you in touch with the Fortune Society   

There Vice President of Development and Public Affairs Glenn Martin and John Gordon took care of the rest.  I met Glenn through Gabriel Torres Rivera who runs a monthly roundtable on re-entry for the Community Service Society. (That was during my pre-Gotham days networking but not knowing I was so doing.)

I have been familiar with the society since for as long as I've been out of college.  Worked with them a bit when I was counsel and chief of staff to the Council Member who chaired the Council's Committee on Public Safety (which back then had oversight on EVERY NYC criminal justice agency and issue) and later was the chief advisor on "justice" issues in my role as Legislative Counsel to the Borough President of the Bronx.

-Corey


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On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:05 PM, pjfsesq at aol.com wrote:

Dear Gotham
 
This is likely WAY over the top for some based on all his previous recognition, but I would be remiss if I did not drop this note for all who choose to read about fellow member Corey. 
I work in a field that often buries the truth. It can create tragic and life altering results. Some lives are forever changed and some are never recovered. I have been fortunate to be involved in using my experience to help remedy some injustices. The justice system doesn't often fix it's mistakes, certainly not on a human and personal level. Tomorrow about 2pm I expect a man who left society as a boy to be released after being in one of this country's toughest prisons for 22 years. He is a man by age, but has no life experience. I needed help for him to start to build a life in a society completely alien to all he knows. 
Corey Bearak answered my request before the ink was dry. I know that he FELT the need here. Immediately the wheels were turning to put something in place for this man who will breathe free air for the first time since before he could vote. And have some support. Thats necessary. Corey DID it.
I spoke to my client today while he was still at Attica. I asked if it was snowing there. He reminded me."Im behind these walls. I dont know."

Tomorrow night, thanks to COREY BEARAK, he will put his head on a pillow and be able to know if its snowing.

There is one AWARD Corey  DECENT AND CARING AND DOING HUMAN BEING!! And its yours!!
Thank you,

Phil Smallman
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