BRIDGEPORT — Mayor Joe Ganim’s so-called second chance office for released felons is getting a second chance with a new director. Almost eight months after the first program manager, Louis Reed, an ex-offender, was arrested on larceny and forgery charges unrelated to the job and fired, Ganim on Thursday introduced the new man in charge. Eric Christmas will earn $60,000 running the Mayor’s Initiative for Reentry Affairs, or MIRA, a one-stop resource office in the downtown government center to connect offenders released from prison with employment and social service resources. Ganim created the office in 2016. MIRA, in a sense, was an obligation after voters re-elected Ganim in 2015 despite his own criminal past.
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