ConConnect wants to become the LinkedIn for the formerly incarcerated
CNN
When Andre Peart left New York state Bare Hill Correctional Facility in 2018, he didn't have anywhere to go.
He had no apartment or job. He was no longer together with his long-term girlfriend. He didn't know who to contact or even how. Having spent almost six years incarcerated, he missed most of the technology updates that shaped the world he was stepping into.
The open gates didn't offer much freedom -- at 23 years old, he walked out of his sentence with $40 in gate money and a bus ticket, which couldn't get him very far.
Senate Democrats grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his various controversial statements including his stance on vaccines during his confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, and most left feeling overwhelmingly unsatisfied by the answers they received.
A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide in 2022. Prosecutors allege the scammer posed as a young woman, persuaded 17-year-old Gavin Guffey to send him nude photos and then threatened to publicize them if Guffey didn’t send money.