Work-Release Program Faces a Crucial Time

The summer off, but not from sobriety
Ashleigh was 17 and about to get kicked out of Tartan High School because she wasn’t showing up to class. She realized cocaine was taking over her life and threatening her future, but she decided to do something about it only when her father died of alcoholism.

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On the road to recovery, sobriety
Blaine is unbeaten in lacrosse this season, but the biggest victory belongs to a goalie who is embracing sobriety after a rough year.

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Work-release program faces a crucial time
Sheriff Chipp Bailey and Mecklenburg County commissioners say they want to save the county jail’s work-release program. The question they’ll begin tackling tonight is whether they can scrape up enough money to make it more than a token program.

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