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MD: A second chance is their first priority

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Since first offering, in June 2005, to provide ex-offenders with information about jobs and job-training services - with the outrageous idea that this might actually reduce crime in Baltimore and maybe even lower the state's rate of incarceration - nearly 6,000 men and women have contacted The Sun for help." Dan Rodricks Baltimore Sun March 2, 2008 How is everything on the outside?" Willie Turner asks in a letter from Western Maryland. "I will be an ex-offender when I hit the streets in the year of 2012. So now I need your help please. I was told to write to you for an ex-offender job package that will help me get a job once I am out. I do not want to go back to prison. This is my first time and it is hell. "Well, I did do it myself," he added, not saying what "it" was...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).