COVID-19 Intensifies Reentry For Better or Worse: Report
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The Crime Report
News of the dangerous conditions inside correctional facilities have flooded the headlines throughout the pandemic, but now that many incarcerated individuals have been released to slow the spread behind bars, some are finding reentry “overwhelming,” according to Florida State University’s Institute for Justice Research and Development (IJRD). The researchers set out to empirically document the prisoners’ experiences and perspectives, while also highlighting how prisons attempted to contain the spread of COVID-19.