By RFD Radio/WFMB
SPRINGFIELD – Prisoners who have made good choices behind bars are going to be possibly rewarded with time spent at a new life skills reentry center in Kewanee.
Warden Tony Williams said they will teach individuals how to operate in the free world after being locked up for years.
“We are going to be focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy, be focusing on the things you and I take for granted, being able to budget to utilize technology,” Williams said. “(These are) things may not have necessarily been exposed to due to their incarceration for an extended period of time.”
The Department of Corrections is hopeful inmates who go through the program will have lower rates of committing crimes again and winding back in prison.
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