Another in our series on criminal justice in the Bay Area, this show focuses on life after incarceration, or what’s known as “reentry.”
How are recidivism rates trending? The formerly incarcerated are still ineligible for many jobs and still have limits on their voting rights. Should we be doing more to help them become productive citizens and good neighbors?
Two Bay Area natives share what their reentry was like.
“It leaves folks more vulnerable to be entangled in experiencing exploitation,” said Julia Arroyo, executive director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center.
Community leaders, advocates and family members of Aamonte Hadley gathered outside the San Francisco Women’s Jail this week to demand justice after the death of 22-year-old Aamonte Hadley.
Julia Arroyo, the executive director of Young Women’s Freedom Center, explained homeless sweeps are inhumane and counterproductive
