
As Alyssa Jones sat in a Marion County Probation appointment room in early 2024, she was focused on the person across the table. Their probation sentence was beginning, and she was asking questions, doing a risk assessment, talking through the expectations, and discussing the support she could provide along the way.
“Everybody’s going through something and not everyone comes from the same background,” she explains. “A lot of the people I saw felt like they’re stuck, like there were no other options than whatever they did to end up here. We were there to help them realize they do have other options.”
That desire to help was at the center of what Jones always wanted to do with her life.