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See the Highlight Video & Gallery!The Reality
Formerly-incarcerated individuals face many barriers to reentry, including:
- Lack of safe living quarters
- Discrimination by potential employers
- Access to reliable transportation
- Inadequate care for substance abuse and mental/physical health
- 95% of the 55,000 current inmates in Tennessee will eventually be released
- 50% of the formerly incarcerated in Tennessee commit additional crimes
- 30% of those released in Tennessee will return to incarceration within 3 years
- 25% of the world's prison population is within the US. However, the US is only 5% of the world's population