One way to make sure the recidivism rate stays low is to not incarcerate more people. That premise may be what drives a group of federal prisoners at the prison camp in Danbury, CT to speak to groups of young offenders, half-way house residents, and even college students, according to Josh Kovner of the Hartford Courant. The women are part of a group called “Choices, run by Jeff Powers at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution’s satellite camp. Presenting their stories to anyone who might listen, the inmates hope they can prevent someone else from acquiring the pain and devastating collateral consequences associated with a criminal conviction.
The following article is reposted here with permission from the author. After reading this article, one may wonder why these women are still locked up, in one case for decades, if they are not considered a threat to society, and have obviously been deemed rehabilitated enough to speak in the community.
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