Comment on Utah initiative to help ex-offenders transition to life outside prison

Sandy • Out of every 100 offenders who are incarcerated in the nation, about 95 will leave jail or prison eventually, according to the Utah Department of Corrections. Utah officials don’t want them to land back behind bars. So to help former prisoners re-enter society, public agencies and community entities have formed a coalition to provide services and knock down barriers to success, such as lack of access to housing, employment, education, treatment and transportation. On Wednesday, the coali... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>