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| Work Release Helps Everyone Readjust |
| By qctimes.com |
| Published: 10/04/2010 |
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Convicted killers, thieves, rapists and drug dealers. Especially drug dealers. Hundreds come to Scott County every year with hardly a cent in their pockets and frequently only the clothes on their backs. Later this month, about 40 more of those Scott County ex-cons will have a better shot at staying out of prison. The Iowa Department of Corrections opens the expanded Davenport work-release center in a seven-story residential building that replaces the smaller center that stood at 605 N. Main St., for more than 20 years. The old center, converted in the 1980s from a motel, housed 81 offenders. The new center can hold 120 who will work, undergo counseling and get the kind of structure that can keep ex-cons from becoming repeat offenders. Those selected for Iowa’s residential work release are as lucky as lottery winners. The Iowa DOC reported 30,000 ex-offenders still under state supervision in the community last year. Just 4.7 percent, or 1,421, are in residential work release centers across the state. Read More. |
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