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| Officials organize to address recidivism |
| By hattiesburgamerican.com |
| Published: 12/31/2013 |
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Officials from criminal justice programs and religious and civil liberties organizations are working on a program to create a Reentry Council to help former inmates become productive citizens and to reduce prison recidivism. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett said in a news release that people who leave prison often have few skills and no resources as well as a felony record. “It is a very difficult time. A bus ticket and $50 and an admonition to do right will not turn someone’s life around,” Starrett said. “We are sending people home without the tools and without the resources they need to succeed as law abiding citizens. We are setting them up for failure.” Starrett said the Reentry Council will work toward developing practices for evaluating prisoners and providing appropriate rehabilitation when they enter correctional systems and identifying resources and connecting former inmates with those resources that can assist them after they leave prison. Read More. |
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