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Book Review: From Prison to Home
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2003
by Roger Hummel
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2003, page 10
Filed under:
Reviews,
Statistics/Trends,
Prisoner Privileges,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Parole.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul
Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper
Review by Roger Hummel
In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry are analyzed and reported in highly readable detail. Useful ...
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