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‘We Will Not Sit on the Sidelines’: John Legend’s Proposal for Ending Mass Incarceration
… . Correctional officers and prison staff represented by the AFL-CIO are doing hard work, sometimes without the necessary training and support, and sometimes in unsafe, overcrowded conditions. On a recent visit to Washington state’s Corrections … in that program are far more likely to be working three years after release than ex-offenders who do not receive similar training. We talked with a 56-year-old woman who’s been in and out of prison most of her life because of drug addiction. But …