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Article: Starting the reentry process at the beginning.(Speak Out)
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
- Author:
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With large numbers of offenders returning to communities from prisons throughout the United States, offender reentry dominates corrections agendas. Accepting the premise that it's just a matter of time before "parolees" re-offend endangers public safety and is far too costly. In addition, communities need to come to terms with this issue and accept the fact that returning offenders, in most cases, were once and are now again citizens of the community. They are not aliens who have arrived from another nation called "Prison." Formerly incarcerated offenders who do re-offend not only endanger public safety but also account for a large portion of the criminal justice budgets ...
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