Program Helps Released Inmates

The Advocate profiles the Baton Rouge Post Release Skills and Re-Entry Center, which "offers instruction in life skills, job readiness, employment search, GED preparedness, substance abuse treatment, case management and an intensive, structured monitoring system." Clients must be under parole supervision or probation and have children under the age of 18 to qualify for the program. "It's just finally dawned on people a few years ago that we're locking people up, but they're not going to stay there forever," Program Director Matt Moore said. "They're getting out in record levels."

Posted by AJR at March 10, 2003 07:50 AM