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Coming Home After a Reduced Sentence. Those Released Since Disparities in Cocaine Penalties Were Offset Find a Different World.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Coming Home After a Reduced Sentence Those Released Since Disparities in Cocaine Penalties Were Offset Find a Different World By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 8, 2008; A02 Days after her release from prison, Nerika Jenkins made a bold prediction: "I'll bounce right back into society." Although the world changed considerably over the 11 years of her imprisonment, she said, "I'm not afraid." She took vocational classes -- masonry, carpentry, painting, culinary arts, Microsoft Excel and horticulture -- while serving time in Philadelphia and Danbury, Conn. "I'm just ready to achieve my short-term goal, building a nursing home," she said. "They're always in need of places for the elderly." More than 7,000 crack cocaine offenders such as Jenkins, 36, have received reduced sentences since March, when the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).