Graduates attain sobriety, second chance
Jesica Edwards gets emotional as Joshua Ericson speaks about her path to sobriety. Edwards and other graduates completed an intensive reentry program delivered at the Coeur d’Alene Connection and Intervention Station Monday. Edwards then received her certificate from Douglas Miller.
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Daniel Temple's graduation from the reentry program is recorded by family members Monday at the Coeur d’Alene Connection and Intervention Station. Graduates of the program completed intensive treatment and training, have clean drug and alcohol tests and attain employment or be enrolled in school to reach the milestone for graduation.
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Graduates of the reentry program delivered at the Coeur d’Alene Connection and Intervention Station pose for a photo with Idaho Department of Correction and GEO Reentry Services staff on Monday after a ceremony marking the milestone.
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Elizabeth Lee said that as she went through the reentry program and made strides in sobriety, she has learned new ways to be happy. Lee was one of 20 graduates recognized Monday night at the Coeur d’Alene Connection and Intervention Station.
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Martin Rice-Lambott and Jimmy Polson get ready before a reentry graduation ceremony through the Idaho Department of Correction and GEO Reentry Services on Monday.
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COEUR d’ALENE — In the moments before the reentry ceremony began, Martin Rice-Lambott and Jimmy Polson conferred as they began putting on their blue caps and gowns to mark the milestone of reaching graduation.
“It looks like you put it on the right side and then after you graduate, you move it to the left side,” Rice-Lambott said after looking up the tradition on his phone.
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