Prisoner re-entry seriesPart II: Stuck between debt and a hard place

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More than 9,000inmates will be released from Wisconsin prisons next year. Some who have been on work release will already have a job. But many will hit the streets in debt and with only a few dollars in their pocket.Some will end up in seedy motels surrounded by the very things that landed them in jail in the first place. In part two of our special series on prisoner re-entry, Gil Halsted reports on both the opportunities and pitfalls for ex-offenders who are out and trying to stay out…

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