Locked up to locked out: Recently released prisoners face unprecedented challenges amid coronavirus crisis.
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However, like thousands of other former prisoners released in the months since the start of the public health crisis, Reynolds’ hopes of landing on his feet have been brought to a virtual standstill because of the COVID-19 crisis. With federal, state and local leaders around the country looking to speed up inmate releases and transfers to reduce crowding in institutions vulnerable to the spread of the virus, a population of recently-freed prisoners who in normal times faces daunting challenges reentering society is now staring down a more extensive and diverse series of obstacles than ever before, not only threatening their economic security, but their physical health and others'.
In this June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York is shown with the Manhattan skyline in the background. Some prisons have proven to be breeding grounds for the virus. Rikers Island jail in New York City, for example, has been especially hard hit with dozens of inmates and staff testing positive for coronavirus, as ABC News reported in late March.
He said his organization’s workers have been conducting screenings, frequent temperature checks and regular sanitization practices but have still seen individuals with confirmed and suspected COVID-19 diagnoses in its facilities. Health officials have said some people with coronavirus may not show symptoms, making screening all the more difficult.
Ron Stefanski, the founder of Prison Insight, an organization that advocates for transparency in the criminal justice system, told ABC News that the financial struggles facing halfway houses were systemic even prior to the coronavirus. While the VOA typically provides services to between 30,000 and 40,000 formerly incarcerated people per year, Banaszynski said a worrying trend as of late has been more prisoners released having their settlement plans fall through.
“The reality is that halfway houses, working with parole authorities, will send more inmates directly back into the community, placing supervision on parole officers, many of whom already have unmanageable caseloads,” Garrett, now an ABC News contributor said.
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