With more than 8,000 prisoners a year returning to their old Baltimore neighborhoods—and a national recidivism rate higher than 67 percent—doesn’t it make good public-policy sense to ensure they don’t go back to jail? So imagine a program that helps ex-offenders with their civil legal problems, places them in drug-treatment programs and supplies a support network until they get their feet on the ground. Sound too good to be true? It’s not.