When Tomajae Tolliver thought about COVID-19, the economy and his job, a question looped through his mind: “How am I going to survive?”
The current moment feels distinct, Steinberg said, noting that more Americans now seem to befrom slavery to Jim Crow laws, which codified the segregation and disenfranchisement of Black people, to the current disproportionate imprisonment of Black men. More people seem engaged, she said, in pursuing alternatives to incarceration that focus on community investment.
Stacy Rojas Rojas, right, and Dolores Canales, who works for the Bail Project, check paperwork as they load supplies for clients in Compton. Finding a support system made all the difference in her own life, Canales said. In 2001, when she was arrested on a drug charge, she faced up to life in prison under California’s three-strikes law, because of her earlier record, which included a residential burglary from when she was a teenager. Friends in the recovery community reached out to her, and when she bailed out with money from a relative she immediately checked herself into a recovery home in Fullerton to focus on staying off heroin.
“It wasn’t the system we’ve created through probation and parole and law enforcement that did anything for me,” Canales said. “It was all community. People who invested in me.”
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