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LOS ANGELES — Nearly 1 million people are released from California prisons and jails every year. While many have a place to go, they don’t always have a ride there. The Anti-Recidivism ...
Hundreds of Californians released from prisons could receive direct cash payments of $2,400 — along with counseling, job search assistance and other support — under a first-in-the-nation ...
Alberto Perez, 46, a recently released prisoner who had spent most of his adult life cycling in and out of California prisons, walked up to him and asked for help getting a pair of construction boots.
The California Reentry Program (CRP) is a non-profit organization with the mission of helping California prisoners successfully reenter society. It has operated in San Quentin State Prison since 2003 when Allyson West, an algebra teacher at San Quentin at the time, helped one inmate with the reentry process and realized the importance of reentry work and the lack of ability or interest of the ...
After visiting a business class at San Quentin State Prison, Chris Redlitz and Beverly Parenti created The Last Mile. The program was founded to address the high rates of unemployment amongst the formerly incarcerated population after they are released, by empowering justice-impacted people with the skills needed to succeed in today's job market.
In New York City, "more than 54 percent of people released from prison moved straight into the city's shelter system in 2017." [29] Across the country, initiatives are being made to assist ex-offenders find housing. [29] In Alameda County, California, homeowners are partnering with formerly incarcerated individuals and allowing them to rent.
The California Innocence Project (now IJC) began representing Larsen in 2002.In 2010, a judge ordered Larsen's release, finding that he was "actually innocent" of the crime and that Larsen's constitutional rights were violated.Despite the ruling, Larsen remained in prison for two more years while the state attorney general challenged the judge ...
California's free prison phone calls are among a series of recent changes to overhaul Folsom State Prison, pictured, and the rest of the state's corrections system. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)