Karen James interviews Paul Solomon, Executive Director, Sponsors Inc. Sponsors Inc. provides transitional housing and employment opportunities to people who are released from Oregon prisons and jail in Lane County Oregon. Since 1973, Sponsors has been the model in evidence based re-entry services. Sponsors employs recognized best practices to help ex-offenders stay out of prison, for good. The program is based on the belief that: “People can and do change, and that a strategic intervention at the appropriate time can serve as a catalyst in that change.“