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       • Have the state work with private-sector          contractors to hire and train ex-offenders on          community projects such as insulating home and          offices to make them energy efficient and laying          broad band lines (the drops in recidivism would          help offset the cost of the program); and

       • Increase the categories of jobs that ex-offenders          can hold.

• Improve the juvenile justice system:
  
  • Enroll children who pose no safety threat in   community-based monitoring programs, instead
    of putting them in juvenile detention lock-ups;
  
  • Improve unsafe physical conditions in juvenile   detention center in St. Charles;
  
  • Shift the system to one of restorative, not   retributive, justice.
  
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