Piper Kerman: We Focus On Re-entry. Why Aren't We Helping People Before Incarceration?

USA Today: Opinion
Fri, 10/20/2017 - 1:01pm

Problems felons encounter when they get out of prison (and that often cause them to return) are the same ones that got them incarcerated: lack of safe housing, drug addiction and food insecurity. Address those, Kerman said, before incarceration.

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