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The Idaho Department of Correction and GEO Reentry Services, a division of the for-profit private prison company Geo Group, opened the Connection and Intervention Center in Idaho Falls on Monday.
The center is part of a new program aimed at reducing recidivism among former inmates returning to the community. Three similar centers have opened in other communities across the state, including Boise, Coeur dâAlene and Twin Falls.
âThese four centers are non-residential and provide individualized, assessment and evidence-based programming for high-risk or non-compliant people supervised by IDOC,â a news release about the centers stated. âParticipants are referred to the (Connection and Intervention Station) by their supervising officers, and behavior change plans are developed to meet individual participantâs needs.â
The United States Has Failed Cameroonian Asylum-Seekers
December 13, 2020 | Fleeing a civil war shaped by the West, Cameroonians have been met on American shores with hostility, high-risk conditions, and now unconscionable deportation.
When Franklin Agbor, a former Cameroonian gendarme, disobeyed an order to kill civilians, he was labeled a turncoat. Agbor was patrolling in Cameroon’s Southwest region, which Anglophone separatists regard as part of a breakaway state; his decision not to pull the trigger on behalf of the national government carried a death sentence. With his life in imminent danger under President Paul Biya’s authoritarian regime, the soldier had no choice but to flee Cameroon.