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| Jail adding programs to fight recidivism |
| By aikenstandard.com- Teddy Kulmala |
| Published: 08/11/2014 |
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The steel doors of the Aiken County detention center swing open or closed to let people in or out – but for some inmates who keep getting arrested after they've left, that door is ever revolving. Many inmates who have been arrested, or served a sentence in the detention center, leave the facility's steel doors only to run into a brick wall when it comes to finding a job and getting back into society, according to Capt. Nick Gallam, jail administrator. Of the 5,872 book-ins at the jail from July 2013 to July 2014, there were 2,209 repeat offenders, for a recidivism rate of almost 38 percent for that year. Read More. |
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