With nine state corrections systems over full capacity and another 11 approaching it, we need to reverse the national trend toward overcrowded facilities in order to protect prisoners’ health.
But simply opening cell doors and releasing thousands of prisoners, as more than 10 states have done, is questionable at best and dangerous at worst. More than 7 in 10 people released from prison are rearrested within five years.
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