Most people don’t end up in prison because they’re dangerous. They end up there because they’re unhealed, unsupported, and trying to survive.

Cocoa High junior Armani Cobb started Hired After Bars as a freshman with the goal of reducing recidivism rates for those who ...

ATLANTA (AP/WCCO) -- More than 40 percent of ex-cons commit crimes within three years of their release and wind up back behind bars, despite billions in taxpayer dollars spent on prison systems that ...

To the editor: Of course anti-recidivism programs in prison don’t work. Prison is a punitive environment in which inmates are constantly subjected to violence or threats of violence. That’s not an ...

[L]egislation that provides funding for states to help prisoners re-enter communities and has been credited with lowering recidivism rates has been introduced in the Senate by Vermont Democrat Patrick ...

After years of state-backed efforts to reduce recidivism, a new report made public today by the Office of Policy and Management shows Connecticut has made steady if modest progress on how many ...

Popular opinion suggests that those convicted of terrorism related offenses are very likely to re-offend. But how accurate is this belief? In response to 9/11, Congress enacted several legislative ...

For years the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has released annual recidivism reports that detail how often inmates re-offend after they are released. But the reports ...

Crime rates are increasing across the United States. If history is any indication, many policymakers and Americans will look to our prisons and jails in the next few years to stop the crime rise. But ...

Gov. Beshear announced that recidivism rates, which measure how many people released from prison return within two years, ...

One bit of popular lore that Californians often hear regarding our criminal justice system is that the state has an extraordinarily high rate of recidivism — the nation’s highest, at somewhere between ...