Prison Rehabilitation

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This paper examines the success of prison rehabilitation programs in reducing the prison population, providing former prisoners with life and job skills and cutting the rate of recidivism. It gives special attention to Louisiana-based programs such as Project Return and the state?s Department of Labor and Corrections job fair. This paper concludes that federally-funded programs such as these are essential in helping the prison system fulfill its rehabilitative as well as punitive roles.

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"Recent statistics released by the Bureau of Justice present a sobering picture of the United States corrections system. A 2000 census shows that there are an estimated 2 million people currently incarcerated in the country. This translates to an incarceration rate of 699 prisoners for 100,000 people. Analysts believe that within a few years, the United States will surpass Russia as the country with the world's highest incarceration rate (Boulard). This growing prison population continues to reduce the effectiveness of the corrections program and to strain limited state resources. In the last fiscal year alone, states spent $38 billion on corrections and prison-related expenses, a 5.2 percent increase from the year before."

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