BALTIMORE -- The week after being released from prison, Bakari Atiba hopped on a bus to go see his home detention case manager without any idea of how to navigate public transportation.
“I was a little paranoid. I felt like everyone was looking at me. ‘Yeah, this man just came home from jail,’” he said. “It was a wild experience.”
After serving 20 years for murder, Atiba, 44, who lives in the White Marsh, Maryland, area, said that he had been freed from the Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup in March 2019. Now he had to figure out the bus’s schedule and how to pay for the ride.
