Home Again:Veterans and Families Initiative: New program helps veterans in prison

Monday, February 13, 2012

New program helps veterans in prison

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. —

More than 1 million veterans are in jails and prisons in the U.S. More than 2,000 of them are in North Carolina prisons, arrested for crimes ranging from theft, to drugs, to murder.

Many incarcerated veterans suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, traumatic brain injury or other mental health issues. The problems are side effects of their service that they might not recognize until it’s too late.

But there is a new effort in Mecklenburg County to help them.

Wesley Woodling will never forget the night he killed an innocent man, someone he mistakenly thought was trying to rob him.

By Erica Bryant

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/new-program-helps-veterans-prison/nHX2R/

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