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Bridgeport’s re-entry office aims to emerge stronger out of COVID By Brian Lockhart BRIDGEPORT As the coronavirus swept across Connecticut last year and many stayed home, Earl Bloodworth was instead driving around delivering masks and other personal protective equipment to incarcerated men and women finishing their sentences in local halfway houses. “You don’t know if that saved a life or not,” recalled Rob Hebert, senior vice president of re-entry affairs for Career Resources, a workforce readiness and employment non-profit that runs a handful of halfway facilities. “That was yeoman’s work.” And, Hebert said, it was a good example of Bloodworth’s quiet but persistent style as head of the city’s re-entry affairs program, helping inmates returning from prison readjust by finding work, housing, counseling and other needs.

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