When someone leaves a New Hampshire prison the odds are 50-50 that they will be back.
Staying out of the criminal justice system, is a difficult thing to do.
Jill Boisvert has stayed out for five years.
When she went in, she was 28 and had five children, including an infant daughter.
New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has this look at what, on some measure, can be called a success story.