N.J. has now released about 5,500 prisoners a few months early under a program created to alleviate crowding in the prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Rev. Bolivar Flores of NJ Reentry, left, helps Michael Salsano, along with former Gov. Jim McGreevey of New Jersey Reentry Corporation with supplies. New Jersey Reentry helped inmates released Thursday under New Jersey's COVID compassionate release program, offering them food, toiletries and other services.Adam Baines stepped off the bus and onto a sliver of grass next to Newark Penn Station, slinging a small mesh bag containing most of his worldly belongings over his shoulder.
More importantly, workers at the NJ Reentry Corporation, a group formed in 2015 to help prisoners acclimate to society, jumpstarted the process to find him official identification, housing and a job. “In this world, you need ID for everything,” said Jim McGreevey, the former New Jersey governor who has since become an advocate for former prisoners.
It’s also unclear how many of the roughly 260 prisoners slated for release Thursday were able to remain out of jail. Liz Velez, a spokeswoman for the office, said her department “has worked to ensure a seamless reentry process. Baines, who served four years and four months of a five-year sentence on assault charges, tried to leave prison with every scrap of paper that would show he was worth hiring.
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