From an ex-con: A message of hope. Be strong, you can change
“Call me,” Carlos “Omar” Alvarez Carrion, 36, urged me, as he walked me to my car in the ShopRite parking lot on Haverford Avenue in Philadelphia on a cold and bright winter’s day. “Nights. Weekends. Anytime.” – Jane M. Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Reentry Project is a collaborative news initiative about the challenges of—and solutions to—prisoner reentry in Philadelphia