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Seeking Employment for Ex-Cons in Newark

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

April 27, 2008 Seeking Employment for Ex-Cons in Newark By ANDREW JACOBS NY Times NEWARK ? Over the past two years, Peter Santos has hired 40 ex-convicts to help him build and renovate apartments here; 36 did not last, many of them doing unacceptably sloppy work or simply disappearing after a few weeks ? or a few days ? on the job. One worker, Ronald O?Reilly, 41, had spent more than half his life in prison, for burglary, drug sales and weapons possession, when Mr. Santos last summer gave him not just a job but a cheap apartment and the furnishings to make the place feel like home. He even paid to repair Mr. O?Reilly?s neglected teeth. ?I gave him my all,? Mr. Santos said. ?I really thought Ron would be different.? But within five months, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).