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| Prison wants time well spent |
| By Tampa Tribune |
| Published: 02/09/2009 |
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FLORIDA - Warden Rod James asked the busload of arriving inmates to raise their hands if they had been incarcerated at least once before. Of the 50 men on the bus, 49 raised a hand. For James, that exercise illustrated a simple truth: Prisons can keep criminals off the streets, but they're not doing enough to change behavior. "We need to take a different approach, see if we can't keep people from coming back." < br /> The Department of Corrections is trying to do that with an experiment at the recently opened Demilley Correctional Institution in Polk City. Demilley, a former Department of Juvenile Justice site, has been converted into Florida's first transitional re-entry prison. Inmates receive computer skills training, education and substance abuse counseling. They are taught life skills and receive 100 hours of transitional training, learning everything from how to complete a job application to how to interview for a job. Classes include information on institutionalization and breaking the cycle. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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