Missouri prisons chief urges cooperation to rehabilitate offenders
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JEFFERSON CITY — George Lombardi, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, has quite a selling point.
In his work to enlist the community’s help in reintegrating offenders into society, Lombardi points to one statistic: 97 percent of all inmates someday will return to society.
In recent years the department has partnered with other state agencies and groups, including Catholic and other faith-based groups, on how to assist and prepare these inmates. Lombardi is continuing the effort while forging new partnerships.
Lombardi began his role as department director earlier this year with the new state administration, but he is a 33-year veteran of the department, including work as director of adult institutions and warden of two correctional centers. He said that when he first began work in 1972 at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, it was a “bloody and difficult place” with frequent stabbings and murders.
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