Prisoner Re-Entry SeriesPart Five: In and Out of the Big House

Part Five: In and Out of the Big House
08/10/07
The mantra of policy makers when it comes to prison re-entry programs is a simple one. The majority of prisoners will return to their communities one day so we better help them become productive citizens or they’ll commit new crimes and go back to prison. In the fifth and final part of our prisoner re-entry series, Gil Halsted tracks the path of one offender who’s been in and out of prison for most of the last 40 years. …