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| Missouri networks works to help former inmates |
| By bnd.com- Alan Burdziak |
| Published: 01/29/2016 |
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Dan Hanneken sums up the work he does helping people recently released from prison readjust to society with a simple phrase. "When I go home tonight, my hope is my TV is still in my living room," he said Thursday morning at the quarterly meeting of the Boone County Offender Transition Network, or BCOTN. The group, made up of people from the Missouri Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole, counseling agencies and other local entities, works with offenders and the community to increase the chances of success for people released from prison. The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/1K7o3Hv ) reports that every year, the Missouri Department of Corrections releases thousands of people from custody, most on probation or parole. During fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30, the corrections department released 19,145 people, according to its annual offender profile. As of June 30, a total of 899 people were in prison on sentences out of Boone County and another 1,651 were on probation or parole. Read More. |
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