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Re-entry Program for Federal Prisoners on Supervised Release Has Low Participation

Loaded on Aug. 29, 2017 published in Prison Legal News September, 2017, page 13
Filed under: Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry. Location: Pennsylvania.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is trying to beef up its Court-Assisted Re-entry Program (CARE), which is available to federal prisoners placed on supervised release after they serve their prison term. The program’s newest effort is called the Cooperatively Arranged Re-entry Services (CARES).

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