Serena Liguori, the executive director of New Hour, a non-profit that focuses on women and children impacted by the justice system, spoke on Monday about the $50,000 grant from a California organization she is counting on to help launch an initiative to house women after they are released from prison.   Credit: Kendall Rodriguez

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