Jason Hardy was working as a parole and probation officer in New Orleans, with a caseload so large it was literally unmanageable. That didn’t seem to faze the mother of one of his clients, who kept calling him to try to track down her son, a runaway who had gotten busted for heroin possession and put on probation. Hardy had seen the boy only once before, and when he went to an address the kid had given him, it turned out to be an abandoned building in the French Quarter. Hardy realized the boy just didn’t want to be found, but the mother kept calling, insisting that the probation officer keep looking for him. Finally, frustrated, Hardy told her, “Look, I have 220 people on my caseload. I can’t drop everything and send out a search party for your kid, if he doesn’t want help.” It wasn’t exactly the most polite response, but it was definitely the most honest one. “I had to spend what few resources I had on the people who stood the best chance of making use of them,” says Hardy today, explaining his reaction. Hardy’s new book The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison,… Read full this story
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