Outside the Gates. / Amanda Ripley.
by Ripley, Amanda; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 62Institutions. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Ex-convicts | Parole | Probation | Recidivism | SuffrageDDC classification: 050 Summary: "This year [2002] the nation's prisons will release more than 630,000 people--the largest prison exodus in history. That's four times as many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails, the current record. Since 1980, the number of prisoners returning to society has steadily climbed. It's simple physics: the more people you lock up, the more you must one day let out. For 40% of those now in state prisons, that day arrives within the next 12 months." (TIME) This article focuses on "ex-offenders in the throes of re-entry" into society by profiling one man's release from prison and highlights parole, probation and recidivism statistics.
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Originally Published: Outside the Gates, Jan. 21, 2002; pp. 56+.
"This year [2002] the nation's prisons will release more than 630,000 people--the largest prison exodus in history. That's four times as many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails, the current record. Since 1980, the number of prisoners returning to society has steadily climbed. It's simple physics: the more people you lock up, the more you must one day let out. For 40% of those now in state prisons, that day arrives within the next 12 months." (TIME) This article focuses on "ex-offenders in the throes of re-entry" into society by profiling one man's release from prison and highlights parole, probation and recidivism statistics.
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