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Chapter 6: Not Thinking About Going Back Intersections

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About 9,000 people will leave a state prison this year and return to life in Indianapolis. But more than half of them will commit another crime and return to prison. They’ll fail to find work and revert to stealing, or take up the same drugs that took them down the dark road to begin with. Sometimes, that cycle ends with homicide. So stopping that cycle of reoffending is critical. But it’s not easy.

About 9,000 people will leave a state prison this year and return to life in Indianapolis. But more than half of them will commit another crime and return to prison. They’ll fail to find work and revert to stealing, or take up the same drugs that took them down the dark road to begin with. Sometimes, that cycle ends with homicide. So stopping that cycle of reoffending is critical. But it’s not easy.

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