When Lovest Carter got out of federal prison, he had a few goals.
He needed a good job, a new truck and enough money to buy back powerwashing equipment he sold before serving three years at a South Carolina prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
And he had a plan, thanks to the Brave Effect, a Chattanooga nonprofit started by Joe Jenkins after Jenkins himself left prison in 2018. With help from Jenkins and other members of the Brave team, Carter said he’d worked on his plan while still incarcerated. Now, Carter serves on the board of the Brave Effect.
“When Joe told me to write down the goals, it made me sit back and think about my life, what I really wanted to be like,” Carter said by phone Monday. “I wrote my vision down. I was truthful about my past history, and now I’m doing great in life.”