Rutgers: Formerly Incarcerated Student Earns Degree While Building Career as Anti-Eviction Advocate
April 22, 2024
April 22, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 22 -- Rutgers University issued the following news:
By Fredda Sacharow
Efren Mercado began serving time in 1993 on a felony murder charge for his role in a robbery that went horribly wrong - a scared kid of 17, barely speaking English, separated from his family for the first time and looking at an uncertain future.
He walked out a free man 30 years later, not only ready to receive his bachelor's degree in justice studies fro . . .
By Fredda Sacharow
Efren Mercado began serving time in 1993 on a felony murder charge for his role in a robbery that went horribly wrong - a scared kid of 17, barely speaking English, separated from his family for the first time and looking at an uncertain future.
He walked out a free man 30 years later, not only ready to receive his bachelor's degree in justice studies fro . . .