--- title: How to Help Veterans Succeed description: Helping veterans make it out of prison, finding out who's buying ISIS oil, future-tech for gunshot wounds and more. canonical: https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-09T17:13:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:47.160Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Help Veterans Succeed og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Help Veterans Succeed twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Help Veterans Succeed by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 9, 2015 5:13 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 9, 2015 5:13 PM UTC **1\.** [**To help veterans survive prison — and not return — try making prison more like the military.**](http://www.npr.org/2015/12/07/458828465/prisons-experiment-with-programs-to-help-incarcerated-veterans) By Patricia Murphy at NPR **2\.** [**Who’s buying ISIS oil?**](http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/12/isil-sells-oil-buying-151206055403374.html) By Carole Nakhle at Al Jazeera English **3\.** [**This rapid response to gunshot wounds could save lives.**](http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9877788/gunshot-wound-syringe-xstat-fda-approved) By James Vincent in the Verge **4\.** [**Find out why diversity makes you smarter — no matter who you are.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/opinion/diversity-makes-you-brighter.html?partner=rss&%3Bemc=rss) By Sheen S. Levine and David Stark in the New York Times **5\.** [**This rocket would comb space gobbling up junk and converting it to fuel.**](http://www.technologyreview.com/view/544156/junk-eating-rocket-engine-could-clear-space-debris/) By the MIT Technology Review  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/"},"headline":"How to Help Veterans Succeed","datePublished":"2015-12-09T17:13:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:47.160Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/","keywords":["Innovation","Veterans","ISIS","Guns","Prison","Affirmative Action"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4142734/help-veterans-prison/","name":"How to Help Veterans Succeed"}}]}] ```