Reentry Programs Should Address Risk Factors for Trauma: Ex-NJ Gov [thecrimereport.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/13/204:00 AM

By TCR Staff, The Crime Report, January 10, 2020

Risk factors for addiction continue to complicate efforts by the formerly incarcerated to re-enter civil society, says former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.

In an op ed for the Star-Ledger, McGreevey said statistics showing that many of New Jersey’s 7,000 formerly incarcerated participants were exposed to childhood trauma, chaos and violence were “staggering.”

“As a result, they have terribly shameful self-images, limited impulse control, and consistently engage in self-defeating behavior,” he wrote.

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