Bonnie Coleman actually said...

"We need to do better."

"However, this positive trend has also highlighted a problem: roughly 40 percent of Federal inmates released are rearrested within 3 years."

"Depriving people of the opportunity to obtain job and life skills not only further punish and hamstring the individual, it also threatens public safety by increasing the likelihood that the individual..."

"Studies show that former inmates who are employed in high quality jobs and have close ties with family members are less likely to become part of this statistic and recidivate."