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The real threat to recidivism isn’t the offender, contrary to popular belief. It’s the insufficient prison rehabilitation package offered to at-risk citizens housed in correctional settings.

To be more specific, our prisons need revision. Our correctional settings currently lack the proper educational and vocational programs to successfully complete the inmate rehabilitation process for society.

The current education offerings don’t match the literacy our colleges teach. The vocational offerings lack the opportunities that our training centers give.

In today’s world, this makes for a low survival percentage. With the modern way of life being increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, maintaining our prison education and vocational programs endangers reentry for the prison population, which in turn poses a threat to our democracy.

As a result, their applications are overlooked and interviews........

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