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A Matter of Fact
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1996, page 8
A 1988 study of California prisoners concluded that there is a strong positive correlation between prisoners' visiting and their successful transition to the free world. Of those who received 12 or more visits in their last year of incarceration, 68.5 percent had "satisfactory outcomes" (presumably meaning no arrests or reincarceration) …
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