The meager earnings from prison work assignments can be essential to a person’s success – and even survival – when they return to their community.
Of course, raising wages is a tough sell politically, but policymakers and the public must acknowledge that almost everyone in prison will eventually be released.
The meager earnings from prison work assignments can be essential to a person’s success – and even survival – when they return to their community.
Of course, raising wages is a tough sell politically, but policymakers and the public must acknowledge that almost everyone in prison will eventually be released.
