Popular Demand: The Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley Caines

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Voir Dire: Conversations from the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School

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While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the criminal legal system. Within three years of release, about two-thirds of people released from prison are rearrested. Wesley Caines, the Reentry and Community Outreach Coordinator at the Bronx Defenders, tells us about the traumas of going to prison and the ways in which we set people released from prison up for failure.