LOS ANGELES — Formerly the head of the city’s Office of Reentry, Judge Kimberley Guillemet secured a $9 million grant that helped more than 1,000 freshly released jail inmates find jobs collecting litter on highways and trimming trees.
“This is not glamorous necessarily, but I think I could speak for myself and a lot of folks: Our first jobs weren’t necessarily glamorous,” she said. “They were first jobs; they were a pay... (continued)