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The Re-entry Center in Idaho Falls. Coeur d’Alene City Council member Dan English said having a loved one in a correctional facility is a common crisis, and that being in close proximity to a prisoner about to be released can help lower the rate of recitivism.
Courtesy Idaho Department of Correction

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Pro: The program works
December 10, 2019 midnight

Pro: The program works

These are already our people. Our family, our friends, or maybe the kid who grew up down the street and played with our kids but then went through some tough and dark times after passing the legal age for adulthood. Often their behavior is associated with the explosion of substance abuse and related activities that bring some into the whole range of experience in the criminal justice system.