Stay Ahead: Making Parole, Part 2: Staying Home

This section deals with issues that the client needs to be aware of once they've made parole. Discussed are the many illusions that ex-offenders have of getting back into the 'real world.' Specific tactics to avoid a return to prison are detailed, including how to deal professionally with your probation officer, how to stop making excuses and 'take care of business,' and other pressing issues for re-entry, such as understanding the media's influence on choices and behaviors in our society, and the connection between relapse and recidivism.