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Boot Camp

Catherine Winter of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the successes and failures of Minnesota's Willow River prison "boot camp." The goal of the camp is to change a lifetime of bad habits, but studies indicate that even though the behavior of inmates does change while a person is in boot camp, the change fades once the inmates are released. Many wind up returning to prison.

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