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Prison is No Place for Veterans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison is No Place for Veterans by Tracy Velazquez and Guy Gambill November 11, 2010 Over the past four decades, too many veterans have returned home only to end up in our prisons and jails. Frequently, this is a result of their combat experiences and our country?s inability to address the negative consequences of these experiences. It doesn?t have to be this way. Returning veterans began playing a significant role in the rise of the U.S. prison system beginning with the Vietnam era; in 1986, 24 percent of all Federal prison inmates and 21 percent of those in state prisons were veterans. Anecdotal evidence indicates this pattern repeating itself now. Why is this so? In a war zone soldiers must adapt to very real threats. They are trained to be hyper-vigilant and on edge...continue to full post

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