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| Keeping former inmates ‘stable’ critical to community safety, says Director A.T. Wall |
| By warwickonline.com - John Howell |
| Published: 04/10/2013 |
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RHODE ISLAND - With one-third of those having completed their prison sentences being sent back to adult correctional facilities within 12 months, Ashbel T. “A.T.” Wall told members of the Warwick Rotary Club Thursday, “The outcomes are not particularly good.” It was the second time Wall, director of the Department of Corrections, spoke to the club this year. The first speaking engagement was at Medium Security in Cranston, where Rotarians, after a lunch in the same facility used by inmates, were taken on a tour of workshops, classrooms and a cellblock. Wall said the department is working on programs directed at reducing the rate of recidivism, but that he won’t be trying to introduce halfway houses that have proven successful in introducing former convicts into productive roles in society, as he advocated while Lincoln Almond was governor. “I tried to introduce halfway houses and I got my head handed to me.” He said the Brotherhood of Correctional Officers is a “very strong union … they are leery of options to incarceration. Read More. |
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