February 19, 2008
Opinion: “Fear is a poor reason to reject re-entry facility”
Under a law passed last year, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to build "secure re-entry facilities" around California as part of a push to improve inmate rehabilitation. The idea is to take convicts approaching the end of their prison terms and offer focused programs - from counseling to job assistance - to help them live a straight life on the outside.
The state hopes to ease prison overcrowding by cutting the extraordinary number of ex-cons who end up back behind bars. But if successful, the re-entry program would benefit local communities because those freed inmates would be committing fewer crimes…
LINK - Redding.com
