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Event helps former inmates Recover Out Loud
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January 24, 2019
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2:06Now PlayingIDAHO FALLS — Every time Whitney Widerburg was released from prison or jail she felt like she couldn’t get her head above water.
“(When I would get out) I feel like I’m hopeless and I can’t find my way and I end up back in the same spot,” Widerburg says.
Every time she felt she wasn’t progressing it would perpetuate the itch to use drugs again. She has been incarcerated a number of times for various drug-related crimes.
“I have a long history of using meth,” Widerburg says.
But, she said eventually the pattern became tiresome and she wanted to change for good and for the better. In order to do that she joined the Idaho Department of Corrections Free2Succeed program and got a mentor. Some volunteer mentors are former inmates themselves, and they help mentees reintegrate into society.
“Through the mentoring program, I’ve come a long way,” Widerburg says.
Widerburg and many other previously incarcerated individuals were welcomed as 2018 District 7 returning citizens at the Recover Out Loud event last Friday.
“I really enjoy that I’m part of it,” Widerburg says.
(Read more at EastIdahoNews.com)
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