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uhnope

(6,419 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:05 PM Jul 2015

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You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/you-just-got-out-of-prison-now-what.html?action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? (Original Post) uhnope Jul 2015 OP

Excellent post Hydra Jul 2015 #1

Also this: 'I Always Believed' Justice System Would Change, Says Prisoner Granted Clemency uhnope Jul 2015 #2

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

1. Excellent post

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:52 PM

Jul 2015

Lots to digest- I can't believe how much we are failing at this.

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

2. Also this: 'I Always Believed' Justice System Would Change, Says Prisoner Granted Clemency

Reply to Hydra (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:20 PM

Jul 2015

first the disaster of over-incarceration. Then throwing institutionalized adults back on streets without much help at all.

'I Always Believed' Justice System Would Change, Says Prisoner Granted Clemency
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/16/423605219/i-always-believed-justice-system-would-change-says-prisoner-granted-clemency

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