Tag: President Obama, Attorney General, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Reentry, reentry programs, prisoners, inmates, recidivism, employment, ex-offenders, reentry-based program, Bureau of Prisons, Department

by Wayne T. Dowdy Thousands of American prisoners are released each year. Statistically, almost half of them will return to prison within eight years of release, costing American taxpayers billions of dollars each year. The 2014 average cost of incarceration for federal offenders was over $30,000. On July 10, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Prisons…