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| Bicycles and recidivism reduction |
| By sdcitybeat.com - David Taube |
| Published: 04/24/2013 |
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Michael Herron, who's been busted in the past for peddling drugs, grins like a kid when he hears about a program that would give bikes to people who've been released from prison or jail. Herron, who's 31, was one of roughly 125 people, mostly San Diego State University students, arrested in a 2008 drug raid. He's been on probation for about a year, with two years remaining, and he's been trying to maintain a job without a car. That's meant taking the bus or asking others for rides, neither of which are ideal. "If I rode my bike, I would probably beat the bus," he said. Like many others, though, he doesn't own a bike. Several ex-cons and people who help former prisoners re-enter society tell CityBeat that not having reliable transportation makes it difficult to get to job interviews and workplaces. Read More. |
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