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Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses
Loaded on Aug. 24, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
New Jersey has embarked on a grand experiment – shifting state prisoners from expensive state prisons into less expensive, privately-run halfway houses. The state prison system bas less than 25,000 beds while the around two dozen halfway houses in the New Jersey system house about 3,500 state prisoners and …
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