By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief TORONTO – Giving ex-cons a second chance is paying ... has started shooting Redemption Inc., a reality series about ex-offenders launching new businesses ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about a series that followed two aging ex-cons struggling with a second chance in the outside world — and whether they deserve it.

They are all useful visual coordinates, considering that the story otherwise takes place in an unwelcoming Wonderland of surrealistic angst in which Alice is an ex-con, the looking-glass is Los ...