Once you go through the risk and needs assessments, any classes or programming you take can affect how much time you spend in ...

A Tennessee program’s success stems from a yearlong commitment to housing stability, employment continuity and social support ...

The American Library Association (ALA) is backing new federal legislation to expand access to education, literacy, and ...

The measure would allow incarcerated people nearing release to apply for SNAP, and allow those convicted of a felony drug ...

The Superior Court of Alameda County this week launched an expanded pretrial services program which means that people who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tommy Miller was sitting in his first period high school biology class when police walked in and arrested him for a crime that would eventually land him in various prisons across Iowa for 17 1/2 years ...

# THE country’s prison population “is now at the highest” it has ever been, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said yesterday, though he could not confirm claims of a drop in recidivism rate, ...

That is not a series of bad individual choices. It is a system producing a revolving door.

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 ...