The future wasn’t always bright for Justin Sarna of Vallejo.
A self-proclaimed drug addict of 13 years with a first-degree burglary conviction in 2015 to boot, the 25-year-old was staring at a life in and out of the criminal justice system, impeded by a debilitating and unshakable drug addiction.
On Monday, Sarna, who precisely boasted seven months and eight days of sobriety, was celebrated as the first-ever graduate of the Solano County Parole Reentry Court’s program — a recently developed court program that strives to provide parolees resources for rehabilitation without incarceration.
“I’m used to a different kind of parole system,” said Judge Robert C. Fracchia, Presiding Judge of the Parole Reentry Court as well as the heralded Drug Court program. “But the state recognized that the old system wasn’t working. What this program offers is a second level of care for the people already released to the community.”
[For more of this story, written by Dom Pruett, go to http://www.thereporter.com/gen...-in-helping-parolees]
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