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Report: New Jersey DOC Should Upgrade Prisoner Reentry Programs

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2011 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News February, 2011, page 34
Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Education, Rehabilitation/Recidivism. Location: New Jersey.
A report by Rutgers University released in January 2010 concluded that the New Jersey Department of Corrections could be doing more to help prisoners successfully reintegrate into society upon their release. The report was based on the results of a survey of 4,000 prisoners completed in August 2009, comprising about ...

 

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