The Kent County Sheriff's Office is participating in a state program that offers services to incarcerated veterans with a goal of helping them avoid ending up back in jail in the future.
The Michigan Incarcerated Veterans' In-Reach Program helped 23 veterans in Kent County last year.
The program provides veterans with a case manager who will follow up with them a year after they were incarcerated and also helps them find stability.
The county is the first in the state to use the program and Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young says vets in the program are now seeing a recidivism rate of less than one percent compared to the 45 percent the general inmate population sees.
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