'Wire' star touts New Jersey prisoner reentry efforts [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

David Porter, Associated Press
Updated 4:02 pm CST, Friday, February 14, 2020



NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An actor celebrated for playing a murderous criminal on TV lent his voice Friday to a New Jersey nonprofit's efforts to smooth the journey for former prison inmates seeking to reenter society.

Michael K. Williams spoke passionately about his own efforts to use his celebrity to bring attention to criminal justice issues and, out of the public eye, steer young men and women away from paths that can lead to prison.

The actor best known for his role as Omar, the shotgun-toting gangster in HBO's “The Wire,” appeared at an event hosted by the New Jersey Reentry Corporation, a group headed by former Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey.

The Kearny-based organization provides job training, counseling and many other services to men and women who are released from prison as they return to communities they may have left decades before.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Wire-star-touts-New-Jersey-prisoner-reentry-15057596.php

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