Over the past six months, I've been doing a little experiment with blogs in social policy. The Re-Entry Blog, at www.tpci.us, is a site for people across government and social service who support those leaving prison and re-entering the community.
Andy Towle provided some valuable consulting to make the site not only interesting and useful to policy makers - but insightful to people who aren't aware of what a major force ex-offenders have on our communities, services - and our culture in general.
Take a look - until I got involved with this project, I had no concept of the challenges almost 600,000 people being released from prison each year face. The US has the worlds largest prison population - 98% of them will be released. This website, sponsored by the National Institute of Corrections is part of a major effort to redefine how we handle this challenge.
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