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State Prison Uses Faith, Job Training To Gut Recidivism Rates

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Anders Hagstrom In Louisiana, 43 percent of ex-convicts will return to prison within five years of their release — the state has the highest incarceration rate in the world and one of the worst recidivism rates in the country. The state passed a massive 10-bill justice reform package this June to cut…