 Brandon Dixon, WBT News. Mecklenburg County launches an initiative paying 60 former inmates $600 a month to help reenter society. The money can only be used for child care, health care, drug abuse treatment, education, and general welfare such as housing and utilities. We don't want people who have gone through the system to go out, re-offend, and then end up right back in our system again. We also know as just criminal justice professionals