A Bay Area nonprofit is providing a new form of reentry housing for recently released inmates designed to make the transition from prison to life outside a little less daunting.
When Bernard King first arrived at a halfway house in East Oakland after living in a six-by-ten cell for 15 years, he expected it would be an upgrade. "A bedroom with a bathroom? All mine? I was amazed," he said.
Cruz knows first-hand how hard it is to make a fresh start. After spending 30 years behind bars, in 2018 he was assigned to reentry home in Hayward. So, in 2020 he came up with an idea: a new kind of reentry home with wraparound services that didn't monitor people's every move. "We did not want it to feel like a traditional reentry homes that are now out there with all the same furniture, all bunk beds and everything else. We wanted it to be different," Cruz said.
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