Trapped In Parole: How Biking In The Street Sent A Man To Jail For 6 Months: Gothamist
The day's most popular stories from Gothamist every evening in your inbox from our newsletter. Istaverse Open external links in tabs Trapped In Parole: How Biking In The Street Sent A Man To Jail For 6 Months by Emma Whitford in News on Dec 17, 2015 2:07 pm Christen and Jaquavius Conyers on Father's Day 2015, one day before his arrest. (Courtesy of the Conyers family). Christen Conyers had been on parole for about sixteen months on the evening of June 22nd, when he rode his bike out of the Amsterdam Houses in Harlem to break his Ramadan fast at a fried chicken restaurant around the corner. A husband and a father to a 7-year-old with sickle cell anemia, Conyers had served five years at Southport Correctional Facility in Pine City after pleading guilty to a weapon possession charge in 2008, when he was 20 years old. His first post-release job, a carpentry gig, was scheduled to start in a few weeks. It was 7:30 p.m., his state-mandated curfew was at 8.Read full article from Trapped In Parole: How Biking In The Street Sent A Man To Jail For 6 Months: Gothamist
No comments:
Post a Comment