Soumya Karlamangla for The New York Times:
Over the past three years, a rotation of recently released inmates, many of them convicted of murder, has cycled through the home of Surmiche Vaughn, 42, and her husband, Scott Patterson, 47. The houseguests are part of a program run by an Oakland nonprofit trying to keep former prisoners off the street.
Overall, 24 men have stayed with the couple, usually five or so at a time.
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Having a safe place to land and the care of people who don’t treat them as criminals can be transformative, [Berkley sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller] said.
There were lots of snarky suggestions during the campaign that folks opposing the jail should volunteer to house folks who would otherwise be incarcerated. There are, of course, people willing to do this, even in more extreme cases (these folks get paid $1,500 person).