Catch and Release
Second, the state must do more to help released prisoners get the re-entry and rehabilitation services that already exist across California. Inmates are often released with no warning to friends or family, with no money, no means of transportation and no clothes other than the jumpsuits on their backs. It is no wonder a 2012 report showed that 47 percent of California prisoners returned to prison within a year of their release, a significantly higher rate than the national average. (New York Times Editorial. 8/10/2013)
This from the Times editors on California prisons. Apparently criminals are re-incarcerated not because they commit additional crimes, but because the state did not provide them with cash, a car and a fashion-forward wardrobe when they were previously released.
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