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.
Bridgeport s East End hopeful as Honey Locust Square rises
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Brothers Anthony and Thaddeus Stewart, left and right, of Ashlar Construction, pose on the concrete foundation of the new Honey Locust Square, a retail, grocery and office development they are building in Bridgeport, Conn. March 31, 2021. Behind the Stewarts is the nearly completed Newfield Library renovation, which Ashlar built.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Brothers Thaddeus and Anthony Stewart, left and right, of Ashlar Construction, pose on the concrete foundation of the new Honey Locust Square, a retail, grocery and office development they are building in Bridgeport, Conn. March 31, 2021. Behind the Stewarts is the nearly completed Newfield Library renovation, which Ashlar built.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less