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| Josie has lived at Edwards Manor since the 1980s. In November 2008 she was doing laundry in this second floor laundry room - just down the hallway from the convicted felons in the Reconnect program. She heard fighting and screaming and became frightened - not wanting to look out the door in case she was seen. She hid, frozen in fear, in the corner of the room until the yelling and banging stopped. A security guard found her there hours later and escorted her back to her apartment. "I don't feel safe outside anymore, the way the city is going," she says. "I should feel safe in my home. But I can't." Josie says the adminstrators of the Reconnect program held a meeting and "showed us their prize pupil - a woman who had a nervious breakdown, was in hospital for a few months, and was returning to the community once she was healthy." Three days later, Josie says, the police starting filling the apartments on the second floor. "We were told it was for people with mental problems. Then we found out that they had to serve jail time for a major offense to be included in the program." | ||
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