Indy Fresh Market: A Second Chance for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

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Indy Fresh Market, a grocery store in Indiana, aims to address food insecurity and provide a gathering place for residents. The store, which employs formerly incarcerated individuals, is located in an area that lacked a supermarket for miles.

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In creating Indy Fresh Market, it was important to Williams for the grocery store to be a second-chance employer — a business that actively hires people with criminal records. He knows how important those second chances are; he was once incarcerated himselfAbout 20 of Indy Fresh Market’s 41 workers are second-chance employees, he says.

And the community has embraced the grocery store, Williams says. “It’s a new staple in the area now,” he says. “You can run into people you haven’t seen in a while, make connections, reconnections, hugs, smiles all inside.”Williams operates the grocery store alongside co-operator Michael McFarland, another native of Indianapolis. The pair are entrepreneurs with experience in this arena, having previously owned a small convenience store together.

Cameron Barnett is one of those employees. Hired through the grocery store’s second-chance employee program, the Indianapolis native says working at Indy Fresh Market has been a blessing for him as a single father because finding employment has been difficult.

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