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| This secretary of corrections takes his job quite literally |
| By mynorthwest.com- Dave Ross |
| Published: 12/28/2015 |
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Across the country this year there were new efforts to reduce the U.S. prison population, which remains the largest on the world. Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections just got a $1 million education grant for a campaign started by Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, who had to start releasing inmates due to budget cuts. He was worried that a lot of these inmates just weren't ready. "These folks are coming here and we're all invested in corrections ability to actually correct people." So he set about trying to turn his inmates into the kind of people you'd be OK with if they moved in next door. He set up transitional housing units based on the theory that if you expect an inmate to make it when he gets out, he needs education, skills, and to interact with his family. Read More. |
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