The Trenton Times published the following article on November 20, 2013. To read the full article, click here.
‘It’s wonderful to come out and work’: Inmates repair bikes in Trenton, sell them to low-income families
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on November 20, 2013 at 6:30 AMKarlton is 28 years old. He has a 1-year-old baby girl, an ironworker’s union card, and has spent the last four months in state prison.
He was sent to Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown on weapons offenses to serve his sentence. But even through a prison existence, he can count on one thing to make him happy: getting up for work each morning.
Karlton, who like most inmates did not want to give his last name, is part of a new program that has a handful of inmates repairing donated bicycles at a corrections department warehouse in Trenton. The fixed bikes are taken to a store in Ewing run by the Boys & Girls Club and sold to families in need for low prices.