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| Many have nowhere to go after prison |
| By mansfieldnewsjournal.com |
| Published: 10/05/2009 |
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MANSFIELD -- For a decade, numerous inmates released from Ohio prisons have had nowhere to go and no one to answer to. That has posed problems for communities and, sometimes, the offenders. The issue of housing former inmates came up in August, when Martina Taylor appeared at a City Council meeting opposing a request by Town & Country Co-op Inc. to rezone several parcels. Taylor did not want the residential area to be zoned industrial because she owns homes on Lily Street and wanted to use them as transitional housing for inmates released from Mansfield's two prisons. "I'm talking about 100 men," she told council. Taylor said she doesn't think Mansfield has enough transitional housing to help former inmates make a fresh start. She lost her battle -- council approved the rezoning. Alicia Handwerk, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, agreed finding housing can be a problem for some inmates after prison. "We have offenders who are released homeless," Handwerk said. "It is something of a problem statewide that offenders -- especially sex offenders -- have difficulty locating stable housing. A lot of them end up in shelters." Read More. |
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