How San Bernardino Community College District helps get people from prison to work
Getting sent to prison at the age of 18 was a wake up call for Paul Soto. He spent 10 years locked up, but he said it gave him time to imagine the life he wanted. “Once you get your life almost taken away, you feel it,” said Soto, 29, who grew up in Rialto. […]
This San Bernardino-area program is designed for real change in the re-entry system
Real change, it is said, comes from within. A local program is changing lives with a new approach to keeping the community safe. Known as the Cal State San Bernardino Reentry Initiative, the voluntary program helps individuals on active parole return to the community and become productive members of society. According to the mission statement, they […]
California Programs Help People On Parole To Function In Society
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and a big part of that is re-offenders. One way to get those numbers down is to give people on parole the tools they need to function in society. In San Bernardino, Calif., there is a promising effort to do just […]