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| OpEd: Give center a chance |
| By The Bismark Tribune |
| Published: 02/13/2008 |
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NORTH DAKOTA - No way has been found to sugarcoat the process by which a person moves out of incarceration and returns to society. It's revealing that inmates call the wider society "outside." A person released into society is an outsider in the "outside." The best arrangement found so far is for there to be a place for the person who's done the time to make the transition to freedom gradually, with supervision and support. A transition center operated by Centre Inc. began its work Saturday in Mandan, in a formerly vacant building that once housed the Salvation Army. Centre Inc. knows how to run this kind of operation. It offers close supervision under security, more so than a standard parole situation. If a person in the facility needs it, there is treatment for the underlying causes of the substance abuse that might well have prompted the crime that got the person into the lockup to begin with. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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