In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, released inmates encounter an especially bewildering world. AdvertisementBut the ugly truth is that it’s always a strange and difficult time for released prisoners to come home. Those 3,500 state prisoners were within several weeks of their release dates and were about to come home anyway — to the same dearth of assistance and opportunity. By 2010, state prisons were so overcrowded that inmate beds took up every spare inch of floor space. Voters in 2016 approved Proposition 57, which offered prison inmates a chance at earlier parole for earning education or rehab credits.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 28, 2020 09:56 UTC