Newly released prisoners aided by local reentry program

Tuesday mornings at 10 a.m., rain or shine, former state inmates trek downtown and up to the Water Street Parking Deck's highest level. It's lined ...

August 5, 2022
12:14 AM

Tuesday mornings at 10 a.m., rain or shine, former state inmates trek downtown and up to the Water Street Parking Deck's highest level. It's lined with two rows of vendors directly across from one another, each bringing a different service with the same goal: To ease the transition of formerly incarcerated people's reentry into society. The recent release of nearly 4,000 inmates from state correctional facilities, organizers from the Harrisonburg-Rockingham-Page Reentry Council (HRPRC) estimate, comes from changes to the Virginia Department of Corrections' Good Time Earned system that went into effect July 1 and reduced sentences for nonviolent offenders with low-level charges.

Grant Johnson