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Elite Investigative Journal
Criminal Rehabilitation - Working Towards A Better Life for Inmates and their Families, pg 12-13
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Criminal Rehabilitation - Working
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Towards A Better Life for Inmates and X

their Families -
By Moses Wright C
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Criminal rehabilitation is being released, preying on ing that only 35 percent of

gaining popularity among women or children. inmates do not make their N
many who are forward way back to prison upon T

thinking. Such forms of Criminal rehabilitation their release. This leaves U
rehabilitation can help to can help to solve the prob- us with a large percentage R
reduce the number of re- lem of overcrowding in of released criminals who

peat offenders who return most prisons. The crimi- do commit crimes and end N
to jail after being unable nal population continues up being repeat offenders. E
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to adapt to life outside of growing, as the death pen- This poses a major diffi-
jail. This can also help to alty has been abolished, culty to society as well as E
solve some of the more se- and the state would need a strain. The government

rious cases, such as sexual to spend more on facilities has to fork out huge sums N
offenders who may con- to house criminals. to keep tabs on these pos- T
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tinue in their ways after There are statistics show- sible repeat offenders as E
well as maintaining the P
prison systems. Needless

to say, the possibility of R
releasing prisoners who E
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might be repeat offenders U
is a threat to social safety.
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However, the scenario
does have a light at the

end of the tunnel. There
seems to be a good reason
why some former inmates

do not return to jail: it
appears that their time in

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