'Where is the fairness?' One mother was sent back after a single failed drug test, and her family's life has now been turned upside down for more than a year.
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In June 2021, Alvarez and Cardoza took a 90-minute cab ride into the Bronx, so she could meet with staffers in charge of her supervision. Cardoza, who had tested positive for marijuana, never came out of the building. Alvarez ended up forking out $433 to cover the hours the taxi meter ran as he waited in vain.
More than half, some 230 people including Eva Cardoza, got sent back for alleged alcohol or drug use. Other cases involved technical violations."It could be as simple as failing to answer the phone when your probation officer calls you. It could be as simple as the ankle monitor giving an incorrect signal about your location," Cook said.
But some of the people released from prison under the bipartisan pandemic legislation called the CARES Act have years remaining on their prison terms.
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