From Bluffton Today:
COLUMBIA — South Carolina now has the lowest rate of released inmates returning to prison within three years in the country thanks to an in-depth and expanding program of job and life skills, the state prison director said.
Less than 22% of South Carolina inmates released in 2017 found themselves back in prison within three years, South Carolina Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said at a Tuesday ceremony at one of the state's reentry programs.
That rate was 33% just before Stirling took over the prison system in 2013. The director said he went to a nearby Greyhound bus stop right after he was hired and was discouraged by what he observed.
“I saw people leaving in prison uniforms — all we did was take the stripe off. They were just given a bag, a little bit of money and said good luck," Stirling said. Continue reading >>
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