by Carey L Biron - Sight Magazine
By the time Lee "Taqwaa" Bonner got out of prison in California, he had spent 30 years behind bars and was unsure where to go.
He stayed at a halfway house for three months, but then had to find a home. Everywhere he went, doors were slammed in his face.
"I tried to move in with my younger sister, until [an official] informed me that I was putting her housing in jeopardy," Bonner, 56, told Context.
by Michaelle Bond - The Philadelphia Inquirer
A New Jersey single father of two convicted of drug offenses has been sober for almost two years and has been out of prison for about three. The man, who is in his 30s, has a stable job working for a union and has enough money for a security deposit and to make rent payments.
“Yet he can’t find an apartment that’s willing to take him because of his felony conviction,” said Priscilla Carmona, a cofounder of the Jersey City-based organization SCORES Reentry, which provides services to formerly incarcerated people throughout New Jersey.
