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A Utah county is seeing fewer people return to jail thanks to a former teacher’s aid

Rural jails are turning to community health workers to help the newly released succeed.

(Lillian Mongeau Hughes for KFF Health News) Garrett Clark (left) puts his arm around his sister, Shantel, minutes after she was released from the Sanpete County Jail in rural Utah in December. Cheryl Swapp (second from right) helps smooth detainees’ transition to the outside as the jail’s community health worker. Ryan Montag (right) has been helped by Swapp in the past.