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mtm Elon, North Carolina • Wednesday, February 5,2014 • Volume 40, Edition 2 homeless upon his most recent release from prison three years ago, Galloway decided it was time to make a change. “I wanted to change my life,” he said. Gallo^vay found job assistance through Sustainable Alamance, an organization that Alma ivomans Senior Reporter loway still remembers how the /cold, steel handcuffs felt on his waists the first time he was arrested. By the time Galloway was 22, he would be in aims to help reintegrate past offenders into and out of prison for the next 15 years, stuck in societvv ' Wiilht want to go back to jail. I didht an endless cycle with no way to escape. want to do pr^i, because I wouldn’t wish that Weicom.e to the world of a past offender, on my worst ene^G Galloway who is now 37, said he remembers , j . ^ deeping on the door at the Alamance County I|ecidivism, in North Carolina and United States [ail for almost two months. In 15 years, he said | \ he has seen more than his share of ot^ercrowded | While his goals are Idmirable and certainly iah ceUs. and eourt-appointed Galloway is l^liting an uphill battle Galloway is one of the many repeat offenders In North Carolina. After Bnding himself statewide £|id national statistics, tb^massive nuinbers of incarcerated individuals and unwavering statistical evidence of recidivism across the United States. In a biennial study conducted by the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Adviso:*'. Commission, recidhism corresponds to any pa -1 offender s repeated criminal activity that results in a rearrest or reincarceration. The most recei * sur\^ey which evaluated recidivism following tlie 2008-09 fiscal year, noted that North Carolir” rates have remained steady during the past 20 years. From 198^^t(:> 2009, rearrest rates stayed between:,31 and'^6 percent. The most noticeable Jumgjfoccurred b|tween the 2005-06 fiscal year an#how, rising i;|ore than 3 percent. BEHIND page, .a mm ■ * m ■i m ■ J mi'"' I 4114$ St
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