Prison-based education and reentry into the mainstream labor market

Barriers to Reentry?: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 227-256

  Tyler, John H ^a   Kling, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

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