City focuses on prison reentry
“Eight months was enough for me.”
Hugh M. Edwards Jr., 40, a resident of Ansonia, Conn., was not always the world-renown celebrity photographer or Yale University dining hall chef that he is now. Twenty-five years ago, he was just a teenager who had finished a brief stint in jail.
“I’m an ex-offender — I’m a five-time convicted felon in the early ’80s,” he said. “I’ve made mistakes, and I had [an] opportunity to have a second chance.”
After leaving prison, Edwards entered a New Haven job training program that focused on reintegrating him back into society and...
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