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| Prisoners serving life sentences live in midtown transition facility |
| By wsbtv.com - Jodie Fleischer |
| Published: 04/30/2013 |
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ATLANTA — Armed robbers, rapists, even murderers: they're supposed to be locked up in Georgia prisons, but a Channel 2 Action News investigation found many of them living in transition centers instead, coming and going just feet from local neighborhoods. The state Department of Corrections said the idea is to help prisoners transition back into society. There are more than a dozen of these centers around the state, many in industrial areas or near airports, but a Channel 2 investigation found one in an Atlanta neighborhood and the homeowners had no idea about their violent neighbors until they were told. "Oh my God! This is shocking" said Hanon Prescott, looking at the list of crimes attributed to prisoners living just two blocks from his midtown Atlanta home. Read More. |
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