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Prosecutors Get Real Look at Life After Prison

Loaded on Feb. 4, 2020 by Dale Chappell published in Prison Legal News February, 2020, page 16
Filed under: Prosecutors, Release and Reentry, Parole, Probation. Location: New York.

by Dale Chappell

A dozen prosecutors and other criminal justice workers got a real life look at what it’s like to re-enter society after being in prison – ­­and every one of them failed to get everything done as required by their “probation officers.”

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