The First Step Act will achieve lower rates of recidivism by allowing qualifying prisoners who have a low or minimal risk of recidivism to use time credits earned through the successful completion of tailored recidivism reduction programming.
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Contrary to the act's mission to lower recidivism rates, this separation is proven to psychologically traumatize a mother enough to increase her risk of recidivism.
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At ProPublica, we obtained more than 7,000 risk scores assigned by the company Northpointe, whose tool is used in Wisconsin, and compared predicted recidivism to actual recidivism.
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What little research on terrorist recidivism exists suggests that compared with ordinary crime, the recidivism rate for terrorist offenders is often low, even for people who do not participate in programs.
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And the recidivism rate will continue to just get lower.
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Fees may also increase recidivism by impeding reintegration into society.
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Employment upon release is perhaps the best defence against recidivism.
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Improving the U.S.' recidivism rate and rehabilitation are crucial goals.
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The recidivism rate of participants is less than 3 percent.
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This new series examines the parole process, imprisonment and recidivism.
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In contrast, Defy graduates have a 3 percent recidivism rate.
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Some research has shown that voting can decrease recidivism rates.
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Recidivism is high, and imprisonment breaks up and impoverishes families.
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COMPAS's authors presumably fed historical recidivism data into their system.
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This is an issue to be sure there's no recidivism.
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Given their high risk of recidivism, they would need treatment.
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Our high recidivism rate is a measure of prisons' failure.
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The program for incarcerated juveniles cut recidivism by 21 percent.
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It speaks to jobs, education, to programs to reduce recidivism.
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"That way we reduce recidivism and crime," she told me.
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Recent instances of recidivism show that these efforts are imperfect.
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Studies also show that providing education and opportunities also reduces recidivism.
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Financial independence and recidivism rates are tightly intertwined, these studies indicate.
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In 2015, the recidivism rate for program participants was below 40%.
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The recidivism rate in open prisons is close to 19 percent.
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"Recidivism has been a big problem in Los Angeles," Grammer said.
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By contrast, the current federal recidivism rate is near 33 percent.
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Without employment, the cycle of poverty, gang violence and recidivism continues.
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"If we check those two boxes, recidivism rates plummet," Safavian says.
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She's co-sponsored legislation to reduce mass incarceration and lower recidivism.
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Denying housing to those that have been formerly incarcerated increases recidivism.
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The same offenders were also processed in COMPAS's recidivism prediction engine.
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Recidivism rates vary according to initial violation but average near 7%.
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Graduates had a recidivism rate of less than five per cent.
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Only two of the companies had met their targets to reduce recidivism.
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Prisons around the world use a variety of tools to prevent recidivism.
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But the industry could rebound by overcoming its obstacle of poor recidivism.
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A criminal record hurts job prospects, and raises the odds of recidivism.
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Prison reform focuses on reducing recidivism through programs and training within prisons.
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The mathematics of recidivism are gloomily compelling for the would-be convict.
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But for offenders committed to going straight, they seem to cut recidivism.
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"We absolutely need prison reform, look at our recidivism rate," she said.
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Most programs point to low recidivism rates as a benchmark of success.
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For starters, only some incarcerated persons are even eligible for recidivism credits.
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This trend has reduced recidivism, bolstered public safety, and saved taxpayer dollars.
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The level of recidivism seems unaffected by a more moderate penal regimen.
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In that year, 85033, the national recidivism rate was approximately 60 percent.
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It's not unusual for prosecutors to catch cooperators in lies or recidivism.
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We should be putting prisoners on a path to success, not recidivism.
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So it will be worthwhile to track their progress in preventing recidivism.
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Carter issued a statement praising Lowden's selection and efforts to reduce recidivism.
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If Mr. Trump releases no prisoners, will the recidivism numbers stay static?
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The broader public benefits, too, by reduced recidivism, or repeated criminal behavior.
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This further stresses the tie between excessive occupational licensing and increased recidivism.
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The program was successful, he said, "in reducing recidivism" among its participants.
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" Despite his age, they said he "presents a grave risk of recidivism.
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Prisons track recidivism, and they report that women who live with their babies in prison nurseries are less likely to recommit crimes, often with a recidivism rate of only 3 percent compared with the national average of 70 percent.
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"We've seen that educational programming is extremely effective in preventing recidivism," he said.
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Similarly, Georgia's recidivism rate for prisoners released in 2014 was below 85033 percent.
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Research on surgical castration has shown it to be effective in reducing recidivism.
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Those who participated in community panels had a recidivism rate of 24 percent.
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"I believe my stay at ADX contributed greatly to my recidivism," he wrote.
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This high recidivism rate points to issues within the United States prison system.
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Saudi officials say recidivism is low, but Abu Nawaf could provide no statistics.
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Nor did they provide the kind of rehabilitation programs proved to reduce recidivism.
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These investments will save money in the long run by substantially lowering recidivism.
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The lack of national data for recidivism rates at one, five, seven and even 10 years, is a significant problem because it inhibits the ability of states to set reasonable goals for recidivism reduction and compare program effectiveness over time.
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Birmingham's Pettway plans on decriminalizing marijuana and supports jailhouse education programs to prevent recidivism.
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Too many formerly incarcerated people fall into dangerous cycles of poverty, crime and recidivism.
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The national recidivism rate is 50 percent, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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They say it has also contributed to a recidivism rate of just two percent.
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Incarceration and recidivism, along with youth unemployment, are major societal challenges without quick fixes.
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The test is whether recidivism will become a problem when more individuals are released.
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Context: She visited #CALeg today to support criminal justice reform and reducing recidivism. pic.twitter.
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Research shows that longer sentences can often increase recidivism, especially for low-level offenders.
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Within three months of beginning the program, Sheriff Apple saw a reduction in recidivism.
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Randomized control trials have shown this therapy can cut youth recidivism by 21625 percent.
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Again, the research shows this works, reducing recidivism by as much as 220006 percent.
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A growing body of research shows that incarceration and longer sentences could increase recidivism.
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These reforms have made society safer by reducing criminal recidivism amongst recently released inmates.
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Another report found that the most effective CBIs can cut recidivism rates in half.
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I applaud President Trump for pushing prison reform, especially since it emphasizes reducing recidivism.
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In New York, the recidivism rate for people over 65 is just 4 percent.
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The benefit of education in prisons is more far-reaching than lowering recidivism rates.
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Some states focus on helping ex-offenders obtain employment and therefore reduce recidivism rates.
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Prison reform and reducing recidivism rates among former prisoners is another top Koch priority.
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MAT saves lives, lowers the risk of contracting infectious diseases, and may reduce recidivism.
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However, the bureau website only appears to have data from states on the three-year recidivism rates, and it also appears that states are reporting data from different years and using different definitions for recidivism making any relative comparisons difficult, if not impossible.
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Of course, my site couldn't break the cycle of recidivism for every single participating client.
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The new report also corrects a "coding error" from a recidivism report released last March.
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From Wired:Overall, the turks predicted recidivism with 67 percent accuracy, compared to Compas' 65 percent.
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These reforms have saved taxpayer dollars and coincided with reduced recidivism and falling crime rates.
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Those at a high risk of re-offending will be steered into recidivism-reduction programs.
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Under Nevada Parole Recidivism Risk and Crime Severity Guidelines, Simpson is a low risk felon.
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Incentivizes prisons to reduce their number of revocations and to institute programs to fight recidivism.
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As recidivism rates show, these issues are working to fuel incarceration, not improve our communities.
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All the evidence points to a strong correlation between open prisons and low recidivism rates.
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Recidivism declined, crime rates continued on a downward trend, and the state actually closed prisons.
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For those unable to borrow, prospects for successful re-entry fall and recidivism risks rise.
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Recidivism isn't just a personal tragedy for those involved, it's also incredibly expensive for taxpayers.
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Recidivism remains about the same, and the crime rate has fluctuated within a narrow range.
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Studies show that sex offender registries can increase recidivism and cause more harm than good.
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He wants the federal government to look to states for proven ideas to reduce recidivism.
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The legislation expands job training and other programs aimed at reducing recidivism among federal prisoners.
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Schooling reduces recidivism and pays for itself, so it's just idiotic not to educate offenders.
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A study from 2016 found that in-person visitations reduced recidivism rates by 26 percent.
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The program's low rate of recidivism for crime and drug use has drawn national acclaim.
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They have about the same recidivism rates as their government-run counterparts — nearly 40 percent.
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The state can cancel a contract if the recidivism rate increases over two consecutive years.
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Moreover, modern research concludes that race has absolutely no bearing on the likelihood of recidivism.
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They all led to similar losses, and they all led to similar rates of recidivism.
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These public-private partnerships are critical to reintegration because employment and skill development reduce recidivism.
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He's working toward his college degree, and is an advocate in the anti-recidivism movement.
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The recidivism rate has been a point of contention between Republicans and the Obama administration.
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For instance, he pledged to work on reentry programs for former convicts and reduce recidivism.
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Providers were also measured against baseline outcomes and incentivized to drive recidivism below statewide averages.
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When family members aren't able to visit prisoners, community ties are broken and recidivism increases.
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Matt Bevin signed re-entry and recidivism measures into law in the summer of 2017.
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Ms. Matamoros added that increased access to work opportunities could lessen the likelihood of recidivism.
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At age 69, plagued by health problems, he poses no risk of recidivism, they said.
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The legislation includes key provisions aimed at cutting down recidivism and reducing mandatory-minimum sentences.
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Although a 43% lower likelihood of recidivism and a 13% higher likelihood of getting a job after leaving prison does not mean all prisoners will improve, higher education causing less recidivism and a more peaceful environment can save prisons a vast amount of money.
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But programs like Hair Design are known to decrease recidivism and divert the cycle of incarceration.
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This will keep our societies safer in the long term by reducing recidivism rates among terrorists.
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By contrast, a study of 29 American states found a recidivism rate nearly twice as high.
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And, where we are failing abysmally is in the very high rate of recidivism we see.
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We spend a lot money with recidivism so you end up saving money if it works.
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The goal was to reduce recidivism, to give people the skills they need to be successful.
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That cycle is called recidivism, and today our guest Divine talks about how he broke through.
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But Rice's defense team argued his older age put him at a low risk of recidivism.
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And it partnered with an anti-recidivism program to bring formerly incarcerated juveniles aboard the boat.
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These are resources that, when deployed properly, can reduce recidivism rates and help families stay together.
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Here, Bone is applying the language of AA recovery to the common act of alcoholic recidivism.
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The White House has expressed interest in prison reform, which focuses on reentry and reducing recidivism.
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Indeed, past-year trauma is one of the crucial factors associated with increased risk of recidivism.
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About 30% of elderly convicts commit crimes after release -- above the general recidivism rate of 20%.
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But the issue of how best to rehabilitate offenders — and lower the recidivism rate — remained difficult.
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So, if that contact is rationed because of phone company profiteering, the result is more recidivism.
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Sheldon Whitehouse that calls only for prison reforms aimed at aiding re-entry and reducing recidivism.
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Indirect mediation and direct mediation yielded a recidivism rate of 27 percent and 33 percent, respectively.
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Consistent data collection over time will more accurately reflect the reality of recidivism in each state.
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Supporters say homes like Hope House can reduce recidivism, save public money and turn lives around.
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Recidivism is low, patients get the support they need, and the prison system saves significant funds.
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Aging people who are released after serving long sentences have a recidivism rate close to zero.
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Simultaneously, recidivism rates have grown or remained high across almost every identifiable demographic or cross section.
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Obama officials credit that review process for a drop in the recidivism rate among former detainees.
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The main offenders are AI systems meant to predict social outcomes, like job performance or recidivism.
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The charities included Cut 50, Buried Alive Project, Equal Justice Initiative and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition.
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"The First Step Act does not prohibit anyone from participating in recidivism reduction programming," he said.
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The staffers devised a provision that made the Secretary of Defense personally responsible for preventing recidivism.
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That's opposed to 76.6 percent in America, one of the highest recidivism rates in the world.
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But its recidivism rate was remarkably low: less than 22.5 percent, compared with 24.7 percent statewide.
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The program provided training and helped former prisoners to find jobs and claimed it reduced recidivism rates.
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If pedophilia weren't changeable, he argues, we'd expect a higher rate of recidivism and more sex crimes.
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The recidivism rate fell by more than half, from 46 percent to 21.6 percent, among that population.
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Recent research into "what works" in reducing recidivism and easing the re-entry process is severely lacking.
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And whereas youths are growing less likely to reoffend, among older cons recidivism is on the increase.
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Meanwhile, my prison away from home in Norway, has one of the lowest recidivism rates, at 20%.
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Rates of crime and recidivism in the country are low, and the prison population is relatively small.
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"Elevated trauma symptoms are associated with poor lifestyle decision making and higher rates of recidivism," Nidich said.
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Our criminal justice system is broken, and we have numerous systemic barriers that promote cycles of recidivism.
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"In sum, upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism," the special counsel stated.
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The law implements measures designed to reduce recidivism and offers some protections against severe mandatory minimum sentences.
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There's no variable for race specifically, but it broadly affects each factor that goes into calculating recidivism.
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Criminology data indicate that the younger the age at first arrest, the better the chances of recidivism.
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Reducing "unnecessarily long" prison sentences and investing in programs preventing recidivism were also some of her priorities.
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Allows prisons to use funds toward programs to prevent recidivism, as well as addiction treatment and therapy.
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They lack rigorous long-term follow-up with their programs' graduates and have limited data regarding recidivism.
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True rehabilitation costs money up front, but saves it over the long term through reduced recidivism rates.
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Recidivism was 15 percent in a 2012 study, compared with 38 percent nationally in the federal system.
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Considering the additional savings associated with reduced crime and recidivism, the bill will easily save taxpayer dollars.
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The long-term impact of Defy is also measured by their effort to improve the recidivism rate.
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Talk Last month, Congress passed the First Step Act, a prison-reform bill intended to reduce recidivism.
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Prison exposes young inmates to other convicts and increases the risk of recidivism for less serious offenders.
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Lower recidivism rates and the reduced use of confinement for juvenile offenders have resulted in cost savings.
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On Rikers, the recidivism problem is even worse: close to half return to jail within a year.
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Much has been tried to reduce recidivism but little has been shown to have significant positive effects.
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Ross Cunningham, Merrimack County Superintendent of Corrections, is improving treatment services in correctional facilities to reduce recidivism.
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At the same time, he has been looking at programs that offer nontraditional approaches to reducing recidivism.
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Alabama is the latest state to use drugs to try to reduce recidivism among sex offenders. Gov.
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Other developed countries have much lower numbers — Nordic countries have recidivism rates between 20 and 30 percent.
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The recidivism for parolees put through this program was about one-third that of the control group.
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Over time, I think that this has the potential to have a significant positive impact on recidivism.
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Read More: AI Could Resurrect a Racist Housing Policy According to their study, COMPAS—one of the most popular algorithms used by courts in the US and elsewhere to predict recidivism—is no more accurate than 20 people asked to estimate the likelihood of recidivism in an online survey.
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Would he be any more trustworthy or reliable than some our existing, problematic recidivism and algorithmic sentencing tools?
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More robust programs that work directly with individuals who have committed crimes are needed to help prevent recidivism.
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The point of the project: to reduce recidivism rates by making sure that former convicts are gainfully employed.
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AI that make consequential decisions, like hiring job candidates or predicting recidivism, should be screened before being adopted.
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And then going so far as to downplaying recidivism of the Gitmo terrorists and being soft on Jihad.
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Increased employment and increased revenue are good for our communities, and they contribute to reducing costly recidivism rates.
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"Studies and reports continue to support that recidivism can be significantly reduced by regular connection" the company said.
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They will not solve the nation's recidivism crisis –but they will take an important step in that direction.
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This is an important bill that promotes evidence-based programs to reduce recidivism and crime in America's communities.
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Prisoners who are minimal or low risk of recidivism can receive an additional five days of time credits.
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In Texas, the recidivism rate has seen a gradual decline to 21 percent for prisoners released in 2013.
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Huge fines just punish the shareholders even more and won't stop the recidivism we've seen at Deutsche Bank.
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Research on those lifers who are fortunate enough to exit prison find remarkably low recidivism rates among them.
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A program that aims to increase legitimacy is associated with less neighborhood-level crime and less individual recidivism.
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Often, what an organization cares about — job performance, recidivism — can't be measured directly, so imperfect proxies are used.
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A population's path from extreme tight to extreme loose and back again exemplifies what I call autocratic recidivism.
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Comparatively, Arizona has a three-year recidivism rate of 42.4 percent, which is slightly above the national average.
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The low recidivism rate for N.G.R.I. sounds impressive until you apply it to a pool of Adam Lanzas.
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While housing aid is taxpayers' money, denying ex-offenders at risk of recidivism may be a false economy.
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Being in better financial standing can help inmates focus on getting a job, which will lower recidivism rates.
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Evidence has mounted showing that the country's sprawling system of punishment was counterproductive, resulting in high recidivism rates.
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They get an even bigger bonus if they beat the government at reducing recidivism among their indigenous populations.
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If the program cut participant recidivism by more than 10 percent, Goldman would earn up to $2.1 million.
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The recidivism rate of former detainees has been a contentious issue issue between the administration and Republican lawmakers.
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Word of the Day : habitual relapse into crime _________ The word recidivism has appeared in 75 articles on nytimes.
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The recidivism rate of former detainees has been a contentious issue between the Obama administration and Republican lawmakers.
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We could have invested that money in strategies to decrease crime, support victims and survivors, and reduce recidivism.
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The move came as part of a broader effort by Facebook to enforce its recently updated recidivism policy.
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But it hasn't worked that way; longer sentences do not reduce recidivism — and may, in fact, worsen it.
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We have learned that increasing the minimum wage helps decrease recidivism in Americans who have been to prison.
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When a government recidivism program is severely hurting the legitimate American commercial market, then something must be amiss.
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Other studies have found correlations between the length of a person's rap sheet and the likelihood of recidivism.
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Prisons that increase recidivism rather than productivity are ripping off the taxpayers and making all of us less safe.
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In either case, it's essential to test whether these algorithmic recidivism scores exacerbate, reduce, or otherwise change existing bias.
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There are plenty of studies that compare the algorithms' guesses about recidivism with who really did return to jail.
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The nonprofit advocates for reforms to sentencing guidelines and civil asset forfeitures and for programs that fight recidivism rates.
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The jail has enacted a variety of programs to improve quality of life, treat mental illness, and reduce recidivism.
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Only six students have returned to prison after being released — which is one third of the national recidivism average.
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People were more protected against recidivism if they use psychedelics than if they had stable family, employment, and housing.
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Using an online poll, the researcher asked "turks" to predict recidivism based on a few scant facts about offenders.
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The other nine were released under Obama, leaving him with about a 5.5 percent recidivism rate under his administration.
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Still, according to the film, the recidivism rate for the park's residents is less than 1 percent — very low.
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But all the Justice Department typically does in the face of corporate recidivism is merely increase the toothless fines.
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The initiative is small, with fewer than 300 graduates over eight years, but has a strikingly low recidivism rate.
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Sessions is right about one thing — America needs to combat recidivism and keep violent, dangerous criminals off our streets.
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Tough-on-crime politicians like Sessions point to high recidivism rates as a reason criminal justice reform doesn't work.
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Congressional Republicans oppose closing the prison and further transfers, pointing to the minority of former detainees accused of recidivism.
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While states have led the way in reforms that cut recidivism and save money, we can't do it alone.
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She points to recidivism risk scores, used by judges in sentencing decisions, as one of the most egregious examples.
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Two Pages run by two separate people with the same name might be removed because other signals indicated recidivism.
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Some states can point to data showing clear reductions in measures of recidivism to try to illustrate an impact.
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" They added that Mr. Skelos posed "no risk to society" and that there was no risk of recidivism. "Mr.
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Congress has mandated that the office produce and make public the reports on so-called recidivism by former detainees.
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The Justice Department has reported that occupational training programs have seen a 33 percent reduction in recidivism among participants.
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It was a situational quagmire putting him in contact with all the people recidivism research suggests he should avoid.
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The First Step Act would expand job training and other programming aimed at reducing recidivism rates among federal prisoners.
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Studies have shown that giving prisoners access to literature or education can reduce rates of recidivism and promote rehabilitation.
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The GEO Group decided that to cut recidivism, it needed to continue working with prisoners once they were out.
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Two new private prison contracts in Australia incentivize a reduction in recidivism rates through bonuses paid to the companies.
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The recidivism rate of people who participate in programs like ours is far lower than the general prison population.
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"It's something you don't know," said Ivan Kuzyk, who tracks recidivism and other criminal justice data for the state.
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The Department of Justice announced nearly $320 million to help ease recidivism and fuel law enforcement and interdiction efforts.
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Conservative reforms, like those started in Texas ten years ago, have resulted in lower crime rates and recidivism rates.
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The second is to help convicts leaving jail so they do not follow the well-worn path of recidivism.
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A 2014 Justice Department report found, for instance, that sex offenders generally have low overall recidivism rates for crimes.
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Outlining a broader criminal justice reform plan, he also recommended a moratorium on courtrooms' use of algorithms predicting recidivism.
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It was revolutionary and the recidivism rate among graduates was only 10 percent, far lower than the state average.
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" And, "Will prisoners be coerced to undergo a potentially risky memory-manipulation procedure if it decreases chances of recidivism?
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For example, research suggests that inmates have displayed positive behavioral changes and reduced recidivism after participating in arts education courses.
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Can you tell a little bit more about how that element of recidivism will play into the judge's ultimate determination?
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It reduced recidivism among young people by 20 percent while curbing incarceration, a saving of real money and future misery.
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The judge noted that recent research actually showed an increase in recidivism in sex offenders 15 years after an offense.
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Dealing with the root of the problem as opposed to simply punishing behavior has drastically reduces the risk of recidivism.
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The bill allows prisoners deemed "low-risk" to earn early release credits by taking part in anti-recidivism activities — i.e.
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Go deeper: Why Trump swears off planning Insider leaks Trump's "Executive Time"-filled private schedules Inside Trump's fake news recidivism
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That's according to a so-called "recidivism report" released Wednesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
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It shows that 13 of the 21 contractors have managed a statistically significant drop in recidivism, compared with 2011 levels.
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It funded a programme, launched in 2010, aimed at reducing recidivism among offenders released from Peterborough prison after short sentences.
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This could be also become a priority for the current administration's DOJ, especially since rape has a high recidivism rate.
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There's a graduation ceremony for those who weathered the ordeal, and an encouraging note that the recidivism rate is low.
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The kingdom touts an 80% percent success rate, and a 20% recidivism rate, but the program lacks independent external evaluation.
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The Prison Reform and Redemption Act would expand earned-time credit opportunities to include any program proved to reduce recidivism.
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Perhaps more important, as a group, sex offenders have one of the lowest rates of recidivism of all crime categories.
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The Senate-passed farm bill would unleash SNAP's potential to reduce recidivism as well as better address the opioid crisis.
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Norway's focus is on rehabilitation not revenge, and it seems to work: Norway's recidivism rate is far lower than America's.
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In Georgia, Republicans and Democrats passed reforms unanimously, saving the state hundreds of millions and lowering crime and recidivism rates.
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It's no secret that few companies employ people with criminal records, a big reason why recidivism rates are so high.
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That suggests that there is unmet demand and that meeting it will reduce incarceration and solve our enduring recidivism crisis.
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Doug Collins of Georgia, a pastor who had seen his state's criminal justice overhaul efforts work to reduce recidivism rates.
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This is not surprising given that research reveals that most recidivism occurs during the initial part of the supervision period.
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Mauer sees restoring voting rights as an essential part of reintroducing former felony offenders into society and lowering recidivism rates.
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This legislation ensures that we do not recklessly overexpose juveniles to the criminal justice system, which often contributes to recidivism.
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The House Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, which passed the Judiciary Committee last month, is also waiting for a floor vote.
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The first American one had sought to lower recidivism among inmates released from the Rikers Island jail in New York.
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Still, the recidivism rate of sex offenders means that they pose a greater risk than do people taken at random.
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There was no difference in recidivism rates between people who completed their original sentences and those who had theirs reduced.
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The details: The First Step Act would expand job training and other programs aimed at reducing recidivism among federal prisoners.
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Psychologically, they score higher in empathy, and, once caught, their rates of recidivism are lower than those of sex offenders.
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Two relatively new private prisons have contracts that give them bonuses for doing better than government prisons at cutting recidivism.
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The financial structure of these bonds was complex, but the lower the program's recidivism rate, the greater the interest paid.
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She said that those enlisted had not been Islamic State leaders and that so far there had been no recidivism.
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There has yet to be a comprehensive evaluation of the overall recidivism rate for people whose possession charges are tossed.
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But Mr. Mauer said many people associate parolees with recidivism and violence, and their crimes often garner significant public attention.
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Recidivism rates went down, and Curry now has one of the state's lowest percentages of juveniles committing a second offense.
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The evidence shows the opposite: To bring down recidivism, a punishment's swiftness and certainty matter far more than its length.
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Lack of coordination, adequate data systems, and accountability has resulted in overcrowded jails, high rates of recidivism, overdoses, and deaths.
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Around the same time, the director of National Intelligence released an unclassified summary of intelligence reports on recidivism among detainees.
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The network announced this week a $4 million investment in a "Safe Streets and Second Chances" initiative to reduce recidivism.
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But in the nation's drug courts — criminal sentencing that typically includes mandatory addiction treatment — research shows that recidivism drops significantly.
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The Fund aims to reduce homelessness, incarceration, and recidivism rates through training programs and educational opportunities that lead to employment.
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For example, algorithms are often programmed to assume unidirectional causation: If A, then B. But is it truly that defendants with higher rates of recidivism warrant longer sentences or is it that defendants with longer sentences are kept out of their communities, unemployed and away from their families longer, naturally increasing their recidivism risk?
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Rather, it helps all parties heal and move forward, and it keeps all of us safer by breaking cycles of recidivism.
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In 2016, a ProPublica study found that software used to predict an arrestee's likelihood of recidivism was biased against black defendants.
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Report on Recidivism of Individuals Detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Who Have Been Transferred to Foreign Countries.
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Numerous studies dating back decades have shown that family contact and communication reduces recidivism, making society safer and saving taxpayer money.
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Norway has a lower recidivism rate than America, despite locking up only its worst criminals, who are more likely to reoffend.
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Kentucky's recidivism rate – the rate at which offenders return to prison – is an abysmal 40 percent over a three-year period.
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Our study analyzing the impact of this reform showed that those who were diverted to treatment had lower levels of recidivism.
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Just as important, any bill coming out of Congress should demonstrate proven techniques to address recidivism and save the taxpayers money.
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Currently, our overall recidivism rate stands at 24 percent but keeping in mind that it's around 40 percent in closed prisons.
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Like last year's bill, Grassley's proposal will reportedly focus on reducing the mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes and preventing recidivism.
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Experts in the field presented overwhelming evidence that expanding recidivism reducing programming ensures less folks will wind up back in prison.
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To do so, prisoners have to complete evidence-based programs while in prison that have been shown to reduce recidivism rates.
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Republican leaders in red states like Georgia and Texas have adopted measures aimed at reducing recidivism and lowering excessive prison populations.
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Research shows that intensive treatment and prison education programs reduce recidivism, and incarcerated individuals are eager to take part in them.
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The bill authorizes a mere $6900 million annually to create the risk and assessment system and carry out anti-recidivism programs.
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This recidivism comes at a great cost to society, and it leads to the complete and total ruination of the individual.
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Automating the process could give people access to a better job, which could reduce recidivism, strengthen families and boost the economy.
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Higher education, once seen as an antidote to recidivism, had come to be seen as a privilege that inmates hadn't earned.
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Facing a $2 billion bill to cope with more prison growth, the state instead invested in alternatives proven to reduce recidivism.
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Republicans pounced on the plan, and one chief criticism was that it does not address the recidivism rate of former detainees.
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It is about strategies that divert those who needn't be in our justice system, decrease prison populations and reduce recidivism rates.
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With Sessions as attorney general, Cohen said lawmakers might hammer out better legislation that may actually reduce costs and recidivism rates.
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Research shows that DUI courts are the most successful way to reduce impaired driving, decreasing recidivism by as much as 60%.
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The group will put $50 million toward its efforts to reform parole and probation policies with the hopes of reducing recidivism.
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Research revealed that there does not appear to be a national consensus on how we currently measure or should measure recidivism.
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Unfortunately, I was unable to find sufficient data to compare Arizona's one-year and five-year recidivism rates with other states.
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The idea of expanding educational opportunities to prisoners as a way to reduce recidivism and government spending has again gained momentum.
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The policy wonks arm themselves with reams of data on the system's failure to lower recidivism or protect from wrongful conviction.
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During his sentencing hearing, the prosecution presented evidence of Buck's potential for recidivism, based on his criminal history, conduct, and demeanor.
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Men are more inclined to recidivism than women, as their notions of masculinity may be tied to their identities as fighters.
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Breaking the addiction cycle helps to prevent recidivism and gives people a fighting chance to lead productive lives in their communities.
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For example, Texas has saved over $2 billion, reduced recidivism by 25 percent, and seen its lowest crime levels since 1968.
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Since its inception, it has achieved a rate of return of over 28503 percent, while reducing recidivism rates by 22019 percent.
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The collateral consequences of convictions — ineligibility for government benefits, suspension or revocation of driver's licenses, and recidivism — have been widely debated.
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The legislation provides the Bureau of Prisons with $50 million annually for five years to offer prison programs that reduce recidivism.
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Recidivism rates are high, and this is largely because people are not provided the resources while incarcerated to improve their behavior.
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The law expands job training and other efforts aimed at reducing recidivism rates, expands early-release programs and modifies sentencing laws.
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For example, ProPublica reported in 2016 that an algorithm used to predict the likelihood of recidivism among inmates routinely exhibited racial bias.
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Right now it is exceptionally difficult for ex-cons to find housing, even though research shows that stable housing situations reduce recidivism.
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Studies have found a correlation between fines and higher recidivism rates, though small sample sizes have prevented findings of a causal relationship.
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"Originally, conservatives talked about these issues in terms of public safety, recidivism reduction, curbing government spending and big government," Ms. Harris said.
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Tattoos are unreasonably effective predictors of recidivism: we find that of the inmates who have been re-incarcerated, 75% percent had tattoos.
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Treatment using MAT, particularly when coupled with evidence-based behavioral therapy, improves medical and mental health outcomes and reduces relapses and recidivism.
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What's next: With bipartisan attention focused on fighting high recidivism rates, for-profit prison companies are expanding their businesses beyond prison walls.
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Prisoners are becoming less likely to reoffend, and the overall recidivism rate is ten percentage points lower than in England and Wales.
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An MOJ study found that community sentences led to less recidivism than custodial ones, when the type of crime is accounted for.
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For us, fighting for criminal justice reform is [ending] mandatory minimum sentences; it's reducing recidivism for people that have gone to prison.
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Those programs, she says, have been tremendously successful in lowering recidivism -- the rate at which former inmates end up back behind bars.
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Requires the AG as well as the U.S. Sentencing Commission to establish a way to assess the likelihood of inmates toward recidivism.
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The recidivism rate for the 500 kids that have gone through Cafe Momentum's internships drops that number down, precipitously, to 15 percent.
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Additionally, JACL also deals with Louisiana's infamous re-entry court, a program now applauded for it's impact on recidivism rates in Louisiana.
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Cornyn and Sheldon introduced the Corrections Oversight, Recidivism Reduction, and Eliminating Costs for Taxpayers in Our National System (Corrections) Act in October.
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Studies have demonstrated that education, work, visitation, treatment, and some social programming improve post-release employment and, in some cases, lower recidivism.
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"FOX supports the bipartisan First Step Act to limit mandatory minimum sentences, prevent recidivism and expand rehabilitation," the company said Thursday afternoon.
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Sam Brownback (R) at the White House earlier this month, Trump said his administration has "a great interest" in reducing recidivism rates.
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And when it comes to recidivism rates, the report found that bureau has no way of determining how effective its programs are.
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Alabama and Mississippi have also seen tremendous progress using in-prison programs designed to reduce recidivism and diversion programs to address addiction.
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It enlists their relatives to help and has a record of reducing — though not eliminating — the risk of recidivism, officials have said.
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However, an important question in the criminal justice reform debate remains largely unanswered: How do we — and how should we — measure recidivism?
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And it would involve a leap of faith to allow the private sector some flexibility in how it chooses to reduce recidivism.
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In Australia and New Zealand, governments partnered with private industry to design the contracts themselves and fashion innovative practices to reduce recidivism.
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Recent studies show just how intractable a problem recidivism has been among the roughly 600,000 state and federal inmates released each year.
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" "A lot of politicians and advocacy organizations say they want to tackle the recidivism problem that plagues our country's criminal justice system.
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The recidivism rate, which was already low, has dropped by more than half, with fewer people incurring new criminal charges, she said.
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"As the commission's report summed up, those two guidelines 'serve as good predictors of future recidivism,' " the government said in its briefs.
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The goal of the program was to reduce stigma and recidivism by giving university students and inmates a chance to study together.
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Republicans criticized Mr. Obama's efforts to whittle down the number of men being held at Guantánamo, warning about the risk of recidivism.
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Recidivism rates would go down if people were given care in jail and the tools they need to get a job after.
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The improvement of the children has an amazing impact on the incarcerated parent, too, with significantly reduced recidivism of the parent after release.
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I had the financial resources to further my education, which meant I didn't have to deal with the most common incentive for recidivism.
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The bill allows prisoners deemed "low-risk" to earn early release credits by taking part in anti-recidivism activities such as behavioral courses.
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Afterward, he learned about how important education is to break the cycle of recidivism and how private corporations are benefiting from mass incarceration.
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Oregon, which insists that programmes to reform felons are measured for effectiveness, has a recidivism rate less than half as high as California's.
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Considering that it costs $127,000 to incarcerate a minor, Hauser's program and its recidivism rate reduction has saved tax-payers millions of dollars.
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When community corrections do not offer healthy, safe and accountable services, prison "alternatives" will only contribute more to the revolving door of recidivism.
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Frequent communication can reduce the likelihood of recidivism, ensuring that formerly incarcerated people will succeed after serving their time, ultimately saving taxpayers money.
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Instead, they studied the most recent data on what was causing prison overcrowding and how they could effectively combat the cycle of recidivism.
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The assessment would be used to determine the type and intensity of evidence-based programming needed to reduce the prisoner's risk of recidivism.
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Legislation that helps formerly incarcerated individuals, once released, with employment, housing, education, or voting access is essential to reduce recidivism and prison churn.
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Because recidivism isn't measured regularly, we don't yet know how exactly much this expanded coverage reduced reoffending, but experts predict that it will.
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The researchers showed that reduced gray matter is closely connected to recidivism, confirming that younger brains are at higher risk of re-offense.
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He noted that the rate of recidivism for those cases was significantly lower than the state's rate for prisoners released through other means.
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"I am committed to advancing reform efforts to prevent crime, improve re-entry and reduce recidivism," Mr. Trump said in a news release.
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It's a more hands-on approach to reducing recidivism—a remedy that officials and activists have sought in New York, nationwide, and abroad.
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A 2011 study from the Minnesota Department of Corrections found that even a single visit could reduce recidivism by 13 to 25 percent.
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In the early 2000s, an analysis of the program found that it doesn't work and may actually increase the recidivism rate in youth.
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Consequently, algorithms that inappropriately combine data for all defendants overstate the recidivism risk for women, which can lead to unjustly harsh detention decisions.
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It would also allow for inmates to be placed closer to their families, because strong family ties have been shown to reduce recidivism.
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The bill also offers "time credit" incentives to enroll in and compete rehabilitative or vocational courses, which are also designed to reduce recidivism.
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Auckland South opened in 2015, and an evaluation of Auckland South's initial success in reducing recidivism will likely be released later this year.
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For instance, if an inmate participated in an activity or a program to address recidivism, that would lead to days off their sentences.
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Other innovative practices exist that use private funding to try to reduce recidivism rates for inmates exiting mostly governmentally run jails and prisons.
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STANLEY RICHARDSLONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS To the Editor: Your editorial refers to the empirical literature on the effects of prison education on recidivism.
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For instance, Hu says algorithms that claim to predict a person's recidivism don't ultimately address the ethical question of whether someone deserves parole.
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If past is prologue, estimates from Colombia's previous armed group demobilizations portend a 15 percent to 20 percent recidivism rate over five years.
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The White House has embraced the program as part of its criminal justice agenda, which aims to stymie mass incarceration and reduce recidivism.
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Why it matters: Recidivism among alumni from the program — which currently has 300 participants — is at 4%, compared to a 50% rate generally.
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Since its inception, Hope for Prisoners has changed the lives of more than 2,000 people, with a recidivism rate of only 6 percent.
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Much of that money is slated for programs that reduce recidivism, support crime victims and make the justice system function better for everyone.
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All levels of government, along with many private and philanthropic organizations, have invested billions of dollars in trying to solve the recidivism puzzle.
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Since 2007, more than 30 states have passed reforms to reduce incarceration, recidivism rates, and costs; and these reforms have seen significant results.
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He asked Congress to continue to allocate the funds necessary to institute the law's provisions, including new programs meant to reduce recidivism rates.
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According to a special report by the University for Peace, having a predominantly-Muslim nation as a partner is crucial in preventing recidivism.
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But the urgency of Democrats' impeachment process — the subject of much bad-faith caterwauling on the right — is best justified by Trump's recidivism.
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The program funds these local organizations to facilitate successful reentry and decrease the recidivism rate of medium to high-risk people on parole.
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Mr. Wilson believes that this specialized approach of offering redemption to society's rebuked will end recidivism, something he knows about all too well.
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" To that last point, the National Institute of Justice declared in 2000, "Research has found evidence that prison can exacerbate, not reduce, recidivism.
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Even CEO in New York, which significantly reduced recidivism, didn't have significant effects on employment and earnings outside the initial subsidized job itself.
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" To that last point, the National Institute of Justice declared in 2016, "Research has found evidence that prison can exacerbate, not reduce, recidivism.
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After all, recidivism rates were 8 percent for those involved in the program, as opposed to 25 percent for those who were not.
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And in a truly disturbing case, the COMPAS algorithm, which predicts the likelihood of recidivism to guide sentencing, was found to be racially biased.
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While holding down a waitressing job, she visited re-entry programs around the country and pored over academic literature on recidivism, or repeat offending.
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Sessions, who is a tough sell on criminal justice reform, said changes need to be made to the federal prison system to reduce recidivism.
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Recidivism rates are dire: one study following people released from state prisons found that, within five years, more than half were back behind bars.
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With that individualized support, the Ungers have had a less than 3 percent recidivism rate, a fraction of the Maryland rate of 40 percent.
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Thomas helped inmates make music in a recording studio on site; the workshop was part of a voluntary program designed to reduce recidivism rates.
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Accordingly, these findings otherwise should be tremendous news for the Attorney General, who seemed doubtful that such positive reductions in recidivism could be seen.
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Although many may not be familiar with the effort, the goal of prison reform is to reduce recidivism, or the rates of repeat offenses.
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The proposed FSA legislation also takes into account that in-prison work experience has been shown to have a significant impact in reducing recidivism.
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The measure, which passed the House earlier this year, expands prison employment programs and other efforts to reduce recidivism within the federal inmate population.
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Since 95 percent of incarcerated individuals will be released from prison someday, shouldn't we be implementing reforms that combat recidivism rather than perpetuating it?
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"Recidivism is clearly a very real issue but seems to be underestimated by your administration," Walorski wrote in a letter to Obama this week.
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In order to cut crime and recidivism rates — and rein in corrections spending — we need to harness what the research says about changing behavior.
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Restoring access to higher education behind bars will create safer prisons and communities; prison education programs are shown to reduce prison violence and recidivism.
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Recidivism - the term for convicted criminals reoffending - is expensive: the government estimates it costs taxpayers up to 13 billion pounds ($18.2 billion) a year.
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The House Judiciary Committee approved a criminal justice reform bill Thursday that aims to strengthen public safety, enhance prison security and reduce recidivism rates.
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Cotton instead called on Congress to provide access to faith-based and other anti-recidivism programs in prisons rather than cutting mandatory sentencing minimums.
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Because of this, it is difficult to compare trends from one jurisdiction to the next, or establish a reliable national examination of recidivism trends.
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Among the options for those cities where crime is seeing an uptick is to focus on reducing recidivism, including through reforms to jail policy.
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A 2013 meta-analysis of data from 33 studies, which included more than 30,000 participants, found an average recidivism reduction of around one third.
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It does not make sense to measure rates at only one period of time, three years, if the objective is long-term recidivism reduction.
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The administration argues the recidivism rate has been lower for detainees transferred by Obama because the administration put in place a rigorous review process.
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He has been presented with data showing that in states that adopt reforms and reduce the prison population, crime decreases and so does recidivism.
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Another organization, the Last Mile, is trying to cut recidivism by teaching coding to inmates at San Quentin prison and helping them find jobs.
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In other state news: Alabama's governor signed into law a so-called chemical castration bill in an effort to reduce recidivism among sex offenders.
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Their lobbying helped win President Trump's endorsement for the bill, which would reduce some sentences, expand anti-recidivism programs and improve conditions for inmates.
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To hear Finkel tell it, Breitwieser was devastated by the loss of his collection, and never fully recovered — recidivism was always in the cards.
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Our efforts against recidivism rest in part on convincing those who have done their time that they have a stake as citizens in society.
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Fixes Australia and New Zealand contract with companies to design and manage facilities and reward the companies financially if their prisoners' recidivism rates fall.
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This has led to a lack of accountability and transparency, a lack of programming in many prisons, and no way to ascertain recidivism rates.
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That means we should think hard about ways that private prison firms might innovate — including how they might devise new strategies to reduce recidivism.
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They say that such changes would have a much more consequential effect on easing the United States' mass incarceration than solely focusing on recidivism.
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Findings like these have persuaded corrections officials in both Democratic and Republican states to embrace education as a cost-effective way of cutting recidivism.
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Securing and holding a job is rightfully seen as one of the primary markers of successful reintegration and a surefire way to reduce recidivism.
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Mr. Trump, who called for ending all transfers because of the risk of recidivism, has given no sign that he will permit their repatriations.
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The First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill passed last year, has already made progress toward reducing mass incarceration and reducing recidivism.
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She writes: The urgency of Democrats' impeachment process — the subject of much bad-faith caterwauling on the right — is best justified by Trump's recidivism.
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And when we reduce recidivism, we break the back-to-prison cycle that disrupts the lives of so many individuals, families and their communities.
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Other states have offered expanded substance abuse treatment programs, established specialty courts and spent more money on re-entry programs aimed at reducing recidivism.
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The guide, a compendium of papers from outside experts, is 231 pages long, and it contains lots of statistics on sex offender recidivism rates.
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For instance, maybe the recidivism results are partly explained by the arrest record, since that might hinder someone's ability to get a legal job.
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Studies have consistently found that prisoners who maintain close contact with their family members while incarcerated have better post-release outcomes and lower recidivism rates.
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Recidivism — when former inmates commit a new crime and return to prison — has a significant effect on public safety and the viability of our communities.
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But in phone conversations, officials predicted the wholesale termination of crime-fighting and anti-recidivism projects if the Justice Department doesn't change course this year.
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The bill, which would provide training programs for prisoners with the goal of reducing recidivism rates, easily passed the House in a 360-59 vote.
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Software used to predict recidivism in defendants result in racist outcomes, and more sophisticated artificial techniques will merely make these types of decisions more opaque.
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This should be an easy call, since research shows that education increases the chances of success upon release, which reduces recidivism and benefits public safety.
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We stand up for defining public safety as reducing recidivism, making communities whole, and ensuring youth receive rehabilitative services to assist with better decision making.
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The program aims to reduce recidivism, support rehabilitation, and create a safer environment within state prisons—and help keep public costs down in the process.
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The recidivism rates are difficult to ascertain, but in any event, the scale of the Saudi program and its geographical location make it sui generis.
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PEP is wildly successful both in terms of reduced recidivism (28500 percent compared for those who complete the program) and high rate of producing entrepreneurs.
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These bills, which are a good first step toward more rational sentencing for low-level nonviolent offenders and reducing recidivism, reflect conservative, limited government principles.
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The legislation would merge a House-passed prison reform bill aimed at decreasing recidivism with a handful of changes to sentencing laws and mandatory minimums.
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Some experts say the U.S. should be watching to see what programs those countries employ in order to find out which can help reduce recidivism.
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This legislation would tackle recidivism head-on by bringing the latest data-driven and evidence-based research and best practices into the federal prison system.
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Research suggests that inmates enrolled in effective programs before and after their release from prison have improved employment prospects, and a lower risk of recidivism.
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Congress is moving in the right direction by creating new opportunities in the federal prison system to develop and test innovative approaches to prevent recidivism.
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The research is very clear that such conditions not only fail to reform or reduce recidivism rates, they can actually increase risks for criminal behavior.
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It had been particularly successful in Minneapolis, where, Mr. Bailey said, it was able to reduce the recidivism rate to 19 percent from 73 percent.
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Washington State determined that for every dollar spent on correctional education programs, taxpayers saved over $19 dollars due to lowered incarceration costs from reduced recidivism.
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Preliminary data, which Sanchez-Vives and Slater are hesitant to publish because of the small sample size, suggest that the men's recidivism rates are lower.
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To get serious about public safety and fully break the cycle of recidivism, we must rethink who we send to prison in the first place.
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It also called on prisons to encourage inmates to participate in programs and treatments proven to lower recidivism by offering them time off their sentences.
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Judges may be cautious of risk scores that are accompanied by a statement that the score has been found to overpredict recidivism among black defendants.
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In contrast, operations in Cambodia and Northern Ireland were successful in improving the prospects of post-civil war peace, monitoring ceasefires, and avoiding conflict recidivism.
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A common objective of the legislation is to reduce recidivism based on the belief that doing so will also reduce incarceration and its associated costs.
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Doing so will help establish national benchmarks, assist states with data collection efforts, set reasonable recidivism reduction goals and allocate appropriate resources to achieve them.
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Edward J. Latessa, director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, has spent years studying programs that work in reducing recidivism.
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Without the program, the state might imprison the women for years at a much greater cost — and end up with a much higher recidivism rate.
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There is a lower threat of recidivism, and thus future harm to the community, among white-collar criminals, according to the United States Sentencing Commission.
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Some studies have suggested that prison arts may reduce disciplinary actions inside prison, though it is unclear whether they and other rehabilitation programs reduce recidivism.
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The stigma of being publicly branded a sex offender, compounded with many other factors such as unstable housing and unemployment, can open doors to recidivism.
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It's easy and common to embrace the notion that recidivism reduction is a back end issue and one owned solely by corrections professionals like me.
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At the same time, violent crime has continued to decline, and the state has not seen a significant increase in recidivism or missed court appearances.
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Because incarceration and recidivism are so closely tied to poverty, educational opportunities are one of the best ways to keep former inmates out of prison.
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What's more, an analysis of 16 studies in the Journal of Criminal Justice found a 26% decline in recidivism by prisoners who received regular visits.
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Their important claim that UNICOR work assignments prevent prisoner recidivism is rather interesting, considering that about half of all federal prisoners get re-arrested anyway.
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The results of those studies are astonishingly consistent: Convicted sex offenders have among the lowest rates of same-crime recidivism of any category of offender.
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And the problem resists fixing; solitary people who participate in experiments meant to nudge them into joining groups tend to have high rates of recidivism.
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The cost to the community was conservatively estimated at $22015 million with no demonstrable return on investment in terms of reducing recidivism or promoting recovery.
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The plan builds on some of the work that Scott has already done in Congress, seeking to curtail overcriminalization, reduce recidivism, and to create sentencing alternatives.
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Congress has for several years required that the defense secretary personally sign off on every release and assert that the risk of recidivism has been mitigated.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) says prosecutors should "shift success measures" to "reducing unnecessary imprisonment, reducing racial disparities, and lowering recidivism rates" to help reduce mass incarceration.
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British Labour Party MP Ian Lucas, who was in attendance at the hearing on Tuesday, called the no-show an act of "recidivism" on Zuckerberg's part.
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Dismal statistics The most recent national figures on recidivism from the Bureau of Justice Statistics come from a study that tracked 405,000 inmates released in 2005.
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Tough sentencing and parole conditions, first introduced in America and copied widely, have been shown by many studies not to have cut recidivism or victimisation rates.
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The bill focuses on both efforts within prisons to reduce the likelihood of recidivism and the re-entry process from prison to the rest of society.
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Since 85033, more than 30 states have passed reforms designed to prioritize prison beds for more serious offenders, reduce incarceration, reduce recidivism rates, and contain costs.
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Despite such gains, last week, the nation's chief law enforcement official also mistakenly stated that recidivism rates have been mostly stagnant for the previous four decades.
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The bill is based on reforms in states like Georgia and Texas, which have focused on evidence-based programs to reduce recidivism and enhance public safety.
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Studies conducted in Michigan and California indicate that record-sealing was associated with "a significant increase in employment and average wages" and a low recidivism rate.
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And what are "evidence-based recidivism reduction programing or productive activities" that a prisoner must only "participate in" (not complete) in order to receive time credits?
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Reporters found that education — which is viewed by experts as a potent antidote to recidivism — has been overtaken by vocational programs in the Florida prison system.
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States should also analyze what action they have taken to scale up implementation of supervision practices and programs designed to cut recidivism, according to the report.
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" Referencing her work on recidivism, she said that "at a time when prevention and redemption were not in the vocabulary or mindset of most district attorneys.
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The Bureau of Prisons has created a new reentry handbook for prisoners to ease their transition to freedom (and hopefully to reduce their risk of recidivism).
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We had a great team of people who didn't like the high rates of juvenile violence, delinquency and recidivism, and we wanted something done about it.
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The trip was part of a program that takes state officials to visit the country, which has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world.
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Letter To the Editor: As you note in "A Fair Chance After a Conviction" (editorial, April 10), higher education plays an important role in reducing recidivism.
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Based on the 2023 National Update on Prisoner Recidivism, it is obvious that the United States needs prison reform at all levels — federal, state and local.
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Every federal inmate should get an individualized re-entry plan "tailored to his or her risk of recidivism and ... needs," said a Justice Department press release.
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Even that, however, is not necessarily new: a 2015 study looked at nine such automated predictors of recidivism and found that eight of them were inaccurate.
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A uniform definition and set of measures for recidivism would improve data collection consistency, provide for relative comparisons and better inform public dialogue regarding the issue.
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If the injustice of the process doesn't move you, consider this: At least one study shows that voting and civic engagement reduce recidivism among ex-convicts.
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"You have people who target people in the subways," he said, adding that the high recidivism rate for such crimes shows that existing laws were ineffective.
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He is campaigning in part on the promise that he will reduce high rates of recidivism and help those arrested find jobs and pursue their education.
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Mr. Betts and Ms. Jones may be exceptional people, but their experience is backed up by research that reading and education lead to lower recidivism rates.
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Broadly speaking, the latest bill pairs investments in anti-recidivism programs in federal prisons and an expansion of early release credits with changes to sentencing laws.
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It lumps together new funding for anti-recidivism programs meant to prepare prisoners to re-enter society and the expansion of early release credits for inmates.
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It creates a suite of programs and incentives intended to reduce recidivism and prohibits the shackling of female inmates while pregnant, among other prison-focused measures.
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The recidivism rate for individuals released from private community corrections centers in the state fell 11.3 percent in just the first year after these new contracts.
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"The results suggest that reversing disenfranchisement causes citizens to increase their pro-democratic attitudes and behaviors — all of which are predictors of reduced recidivism," Shineman wrote.
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Editorial Criminal justice officials across the country are struggling to break the recidivism cycle in which prisoners are released only to land right back behind bars.
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Another bill approved last month would authorize funding for public and private entities to offer academic and vocational education programs for prisoners to help reduce recidivism.
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I have no reason to believe that the former science teacher is reoffending, other than basic recidivism statistics regarding men like him, which are not favorable.
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He's also the founder of Inmates to Entrepreneurs which aims to reduce the rate of recidivism by providing an alternative path to financial stability and success.
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Program officials also told the Arizona Republic in 220 that the recidivism rate among protected witnesses is around 230 percent, regardless of any prior criminal charges.
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US recidivism rates outside drug court are much higher: about two-thirds offend again within three years of their release, and three-quarters after five years.
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While the federal intent may be noble (trying to keep prisoners busy, preventing recidivism), the actual result is catastrophic for the commercial "Made in USA" movement.
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Federal prison wardens simply do not award time credits for watching TV. Furthermore, the bill mandates data analysis on the effectiveness of each recidivism-reduction program.
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And by preventing people with convictions from getting the college degree that has become the price of admission to the new economy, it surely contributes to recidivism.
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Studies have not found any credible evidence that faith-based programs within and outside of prisons are any more effective at reducing recidivism rates than secular ones.
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But when we look at the results of specialty courts like the Veterans Treatment Court in drug court, nationally we only have a 3 percent recidivism rate.
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Semple said the state won&apost have recidivism statistics for the unit for several years, but notes that disciplinary issues inside the TRUE unit are virtually nonexistent.
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Another 2016 study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy found little evidence that mandatory drug treatment helps people stop using drugs or reduces criminal recidivism.
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To be released, most Pennsylvania inmates have to complete classes on anger management, sex-offender recidivism prevention, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and/or basic decision-making.
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Well, we have treated the drug-addicted in our prisons and we released them in to the community, and our recidivism rate is less than 221 percent.
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Working initially with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a support network in Los Angeles, Mr Sale and his other partners honed the idea for "Future IDs at Alcatraz".
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Inmates in division four, a division with programs designed to improve quality of life and reduce recidivism, have about an hour of outdoor recreation time per day.
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"My sheriff believes in reducing recidivism and getting people in a position where they can graduate from jail and not just get out of jail," Dobridnia says.
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You voted to not let recidivism, those who need help when they come back out, over 90 percent of our folks, Laura, come back out of prison.
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Recidivism studies also face a long-standing problem in reliably measuring false positives, since a longer prison sentence can prevent a person from reoffending while they're incarcerated.
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" The baseline for "suspected" recidivism involves "plausible but unverified or single-source reporting indicating a specific former GTMO detainee is directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities.
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The Jones pages were removed under an updated "recidivism policy" that stops individuals who already violated Facebook's rules from doing so on a new set of pages.
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Obviously, one is more likely to be rearrested if one lives in an overpoliced neighborhood, and that creates a feedback loop—more arrests mean higher recidivism rates.
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Wallace believes that these high levels of trauma contribute to the high rate of recidivism, which among women inmates is 68 percent within five years of release.
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For those who did wind up inside prison walls, rehabilitative programs were implemented to provide offenders with job training and education to lower their risk of recidivism.
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Eligible prisoners who successfully reduce their risk of recidivism will be able to earn ten days of time credits for each 30 days of successfully completed programming.
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Providing education, skills training and employment opportunities to people with arrest and conviction histories helps reduce recidivism, increase public safety, build stronger communities and strengthen local economies.
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But what tough-on-crime supporters fail to acknowledge is that a high recidivism rate is proof our current approach isn't working, not an argument against reform.
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A new analysis of juvenile cases in the Pittsburgh area found that unrealistic fines and fees contribute to recidivism and have an unequal effect on nonwhite offenders.
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The donor network helmed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is putting $4 million behind a pilot program aimed at reducing recidivism rates among former prisoners.
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Holden said the declining crime rates are no cause for complacency, and he pointed to states that have enacted new measures to reduce recidivism and increase treatment.
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He went on to form a support network for former prison inmates known as the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and in 2628 he created production company One Community.
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These themes were central to my testimony about the wisdom of using evidence-based juvenile justice practices that change behaviors and thereby reduce the chances of recidivism.
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Because a criminal record impedes a person's ability to obtain a job and housing — two components that greatly impact recidivism — people often reoffend and return to prison.
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This update to our recidivism policy means that Pages that were created prior to when we removed the first Page can now be subject to this policy.
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As we look forward to the next phase of this work and continuing to reduce recidivism rates, we must maintain the critical support for these reentry programs.
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Every prisoner would be subject to a risk and needs assessment, and offered the opportunity to participate in programming to lower his or her likelihood of recidivism.
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The researchers found that over the 18-month period, the CBI-based reforms reduced recidivism rates by 21 percent—and they only cost about $60 per participant.
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Experts argue that stable housing, along with support services for ex-offenders, including drug treatment and education, can ease their reentry and reduce high rates of recidivism.
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States and the federal government should ensure contracts with private prisons contain incentives that focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the 2.3 million people incarcerated.
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The plan calls for a national criminal justice commission that would study how to reduce mass incarceration and recidivism while still holding offenders, including violent ones, accountable.
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At its core, an offer of early release for the completion of recidivism reduction and reintegration programs is an opportunity for policymakers to be tough but fair.
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An enduringly moral vision for a free society hinges on our will to divert and decrease incarceration, not merely resourcing prisons with programs that allegedly reduce recidivism.
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He argued that higher rates of unemployment can be a barrier to re-entering society from prisonand that the availability of jobs could lower rates of recidivism.
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"The rate of recidivism of untreated offenders has been estimated to be as high as 80 percent," Justice Kennedy wrote in the earlier case, McKune v. Lile.
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The impact of prosecution is similarly inconclusive: A conviction may have some effect on recidivism, but its deterrence largely disappears without continuous monitoring, such as intensive probation.
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The impact of prosecution is similarly inconclusive: A conviction may have some effect on recidivism, but its deterrence largely disappears without continuous monitoring, such as intensive probation.
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Depending on what study you refer to, recidivism or re-offense rates are more like 13.5 percent and even less among female sex offenders, at 1.5 percent.
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Booker cited getting the First Step Act, a federal prison reform bill aimed at reducing recidivism, passed in December 2018 after making some concessions to his Republican colleagues.
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On the policy level the number of people who have gone back to prison is about five times better than the average recidivism rate of people leaving prison.
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They agree that America's high incarceration and recidivism rates take a toll on families and communities, and that we need to balance personal responsibility with forgiveness and rehabilitation.
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"As a prosecutor or a regulator recidivism is a huge issue in terms of how you approach a case and how aggressively you approach a case," he says.
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And it confirms a fact that recidivism researchers have long known: When sex offenders do commit another crime, it's far more likely to be a non-sexual one.
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Citing research that longer prison sentences lead to higher recidivism rates, she argued that people who receive clemency will likely have lower reoffending rates than those who don't.
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A study from RAND, first conducted in 2013 and updated in 85033, found that access to postsecondary education in prison can reduce recidivism by up to 48 percent.
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They add, however, that her efforts — including a program aimed at reducing recidivism called "Back on Track" — are indicative of her intent to reform the system from within.
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This likelihood of reoffense, called the recidivism rate, is the likelihood that someone recommits a crime after being released, and the rate is calculated primarily using arrest data.
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A USSC study found that offenders without a high school diploma have the highest recidivism — 60% — with college graduates only landing back in prison 20% of the time.
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Programs such as those aimed at reducing recidivism are expensive, Petersilia noted, but they have the potential to both save money and serve society in the long run.
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There's been a 123 percent increase in incarcerated women since 212, and their recidivism rate hovers around 240 percent— but there's far less infrastructure catering to their education.
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Research suggests that licensing may also lead to higher recidivism rates — limiting opportunities for those that made a mistake in their past to re-enter the work force.
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I've seen research that shows even one visit from a child to a mother in prison can help reduce recidivism and give women hope of changing their lives.
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Since then, recidivism is down 25 percent, Texas has closed four prisons, crime is at levels not seen since the 85033s and the state has saved $4 billion.
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We found: Our survey results show that the BOP does not provide the kind of programming and treatment that are crucial to reducing recidivism and thereby reducing crime.
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While prison labor has often been criticized as exploitative, studies have shown that certain well-designed programs can reduce recidivism or at least hold off boredom and disheartenment.
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His lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III for significantly less time given his age, poor health, low risk of recidivism and cooperation with Mueller's probe.
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She also believes that Defy Ventures, her entrepreneurship program for people with criminal histories, can have a broader impact on society by helping to reduce national recidivism rates.
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Only 1 percent to 7 percent of children who commit sexual offenses will do it again — much lower than the 13 percent recidivism rates for adult sexual offenders.
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It is credited with a reported drop in prison violence, but not enough have been released from any of these programs to indicate whether they will reduce recidivism.
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In fact, a study by the RAND Corporation estimates that every dollar invested in correction education yields $4 to $5 in savings from a reduction in recidivism rates.
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On the one hand, they're meant to be rehabilitative, with the stated aim to provide inmates with tools and coping mechanisms to help reduce the chance of recidivism.
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Private contractors were able to reduce recidivism by providing programs that are proven to work such as cognitive behavioral therapy, substance abuse counseling, educational classes, and job training.
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We are one of four states now participating in an innovative nationwide program that takes an evidence-driven approach to the chronic issues of repeat offenders and recidivism.
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"You have this recidivism of nursing homes that are special focus facilities," said Richard Mollot, director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, an advocacy group in Manhattan.
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Recidivism rates are usually calculated by examining criminal acts in the first two or four years after the initial crime, and the track record in Michigan is impressive.
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"Pentagon leadership and legal, combined with the task force down at Gitmo, were not prepared to sign off on the recidivism risk," the former White House official said.
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In addition to the payout, the company agreed to hire a criminologist to develop a new background check process that accounts for job applicants' actual risk of recidivism.
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Under the Obama administration, the interagency council worked to reduce recidivism and improve employment, education, housing, health and child welfare outcomes, according to the Department of Justice website.
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When New York dismantled the worst parts of the draconian "Rockefeller Drug Laws", instituting sentencing reforms and expanded access to treatment, the rates of crime and recidivism dropped.
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Ms. Harris did not respond directly, and instead brought up Ms. Sanchez' attendance record in Congress and spoke of her office's efforts on reducing recidivism and increasing transparency.
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A job — even one that pays $10 to $15 an hour, roughly the wage range at Starbucks — can help end the cycle of crime and recidivism, experts say.
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I want my story to become a model for all prostituted women — that with the right treatment and more job opportunities, we can beat the cycle of recidivism.
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"Pai has consistently opposed efforts to keep incarcerated people and their families connected through affordable calls, even though those calls have been proven to reduce recidivism," Cyril told Motherboard.
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Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is focused on expanding funding for drug courts to treat drug addiction for nonviolent offenders, since she believes addiction is an underlying cause of recidivism.
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The film is a portrait of American recidivism, told through the unique lens of a filmmaker who also served time in prison and struggled with the effects of incarceration.
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In Nevada, a percentage of the revenue goes to public schools and education-backed initiatives, while in Alaska, revenue goes toward fighting recidivism rates among the state's ex-cons.
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We support evidence-based justice reforms that facilitate re-entry and lower both crime and recidivism rates, such as those implemented in red and blue states in recent years.
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Programs like The Actors' Gang report recidivism rates as low as 503 percent, compared to a statewide rate of around 250 percent, one of the highest in the country.
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Since the fall, the committee has approved nearly a dozen pieces of legislation, including the Sentencing Reform Act, the Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, and the Criminal Code Improvement Act.
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The recidivism rates for youths in the state of Texas hovers at around 50 percent: that's a 50/50 shot that a minor will be go back to jail.
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He said the state's mandatory sentencing system for many crimes had taken discretion away from judges and ultimately contributed to recidivism by providing inmates with little incentive for rehabilitation.
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Andy Wright, who is in charge of reducing recidivism, imagines prisoners discussing their homework with tutors over Skype or contacting family members using a personal telephone in their cell.
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That concern is often less about fear of recidivism and instead possible victimization by community members less willing to accept that the former fighter is no longer a threat.
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The legislation also gives prison wardens and the Department of Justice authority to decide what counts as a recidivism program based on clear data that shows it reduces crime.
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The successes that these two states have seen, as well as others that have taken a smarter approach to recidivism reduction, are the foundation for the FIRST STEP Act.
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Most diversion programs cost less than prison, according to Smith, and provide further savings because they lower recidivism rates and decrease the chances that children will become criminals, too.
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This year's topic was whether the federal government should establish new policies to reduce juvenile crime; as he searched for his car, Adam recited statistics about recidivism to himself.
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The newest program, called Women Overcoming Recidivism Through Hard Work, or Worth for short, began in June 2018 at the York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in eastern Connecticut.
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The sweeping legislation passed Tuesday proposes easing racial disparities in sentencing, dismantling some of the systemic holdovers from the war on drugs, and implementing programs aimed at reducing recidivism.
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Record clearing has been linked to lower recidivism rates, which is logical given that individuals who can secure employment are less likely to get in trouble with the law.
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The other half of the bill includes measures meant to reduce prison recidivism, like job training, education and mental health and drug treatment, and incentivizes prisoners to take part.
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Aiming to reduce the Maori's recidivism rate, Serco and its partners worked with indigenous groups to build a cultural center for the Maori prisoners at the Auckland South prison.
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And as the Bard program has demonstrated, education reduces recidivism, since their statistics show that more than 97% of Bard Prison Initiative graduates leave prison and never go back.
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The first ever Social Impact Bond ("SIB") was introduced in the United Kingdom when private investors funded an initiative aimed at reducing recidivism among inmates released from Peterborough prison.
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The two-year recidivism rate for graduates of drug courts there is 28500 percent, compared to 6900 percent for people who were prosecuted in the traditional adult criminal system.
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Beginning in the early 2000s, state leaders began to examine the massive outlays of public resources dedicated to incarceration, observing that despite these expenditures, recidivism rates remained stubbornly high.
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His release brought objections from elected officials who asked why Lindh was being freed early and what training parole officers had to spot radicalization and recidivism among former jihadists.
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The first is legislation of the same name passed by the House in May, which did not make any changes to sentencing laws but did offer some anti-recidivism programs.
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But of those released since Mr Obama came to office, the recidivism rate has dropped sharply; only nine, according to the National Security Council, have definitely "re-engaged" with jihad.
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Her case prompted Judd to work with the nonprofit Hope for Prisoners, which helps inmates re-enter the world after they're released with the goal of lowering the recidivism rate.
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The senator said he wanted to make sure that recidivism rates decreased and that people coming out of jails and prisons received the job training needed to rebuild their lives.
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And on the federal level, it's even lower: In perhaps the largest recidivism study, the US Department of Justice reported a three-year sex offender reconviction rate of 3.5 percent.
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This risk of recidivism is used to set bail and determine sentencing and parole, and it informs predictive policing systems that direct police to neighborhoods likely to have more crime.
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One study of 506 defendants mandated to a Texas rehab for six months found no significant difference in recidivism between graduates, dropouts, and people who weren't mandated to the program.
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"We must also continue to work to identify the best means to reduce recidivism and [make sure] that sufficient resources and programs are available to do so," the statement concluded.
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We, of course, disagreed, and argued the money would be better spent on prison programs like education and job training, which have been proven to reduce recidivism and, therefore, crime.
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A report from the US Department of Justice found that vocational training for inmates dropped their recidivism rate to 403 percent, getting a bachelor's degree lowered that to 5.6 percent.
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Every dollar spent on substance use disorder treatment saves $4 in health care costs and $7 in criminal justice costs by preventing the cycle of recidivism that often accompanies addiction.
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Sessions, Cotton and their allies can start by supporting the FIRST STEP Act, a House-passed bill based on data-driven anti-recidivism reforms passed in states such as Texas.
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On recidivism, Republicans point to a 85033 percent figure that represents detainees released by Presidents George W. Bush and Obama who are confirmed or suspected of re-engaging in terrorism.
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Notably, these types of models, which help produce dramatically lower recidivism rates in countries like Norway where they are used, are even more staffing-intensive than a traditional correctional environment.
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To some, the display of force and combat readiness, staged on Russia's doorsteps at a time of escalating international tension, was yet another worrisome example of creeping Soviet-era recidivism.
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They point to a 30 percent recidivism rate among detainees released by both Obama and President George W. Bush who are are confirmed or suspected of re-engaging in terrorism.
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It is a gamble to issue pardons, especially since political opponents can easily point to a single case of recidivism to accuse a governor of poor judgment or excessive leniency.
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And for a more accurate picture of recidivism, it will collect data on whether probation and parole revocations are due to technical violations or to arrests for a new offense.
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Law enforcement, corrections and city officials are reviewing hundreds of other inmates for potential release this week, he said, weighing factors that include their age, health and likelihood of recidivism.
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S. Homegrown Violent Extremist Recidivism Likely" said without elaboration that as of May 22016 Mr. Lindh "continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts.
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The money pays for support services, skills training, and job placement, and the program will cost the state nothing unless it succeeds; significant recidivism reductions will produce bonuses for investors.
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There are humanitarian reasons to offer prison education programs regardless, but to substantiate the claim that education programs reduce recidivism we need a body of research that is more rigorous.
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Instead, the stigma of being publicly branded a sex offender, they say, can result in job and housing discrimination, denying registrants the stability and support networks vital in preventing recidivism.
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Early on, including in a 210 Supreme Court ruling, the term "frightening and high" was used to describe recidivism rates pinned as high as 27 percent for some sex offenders.
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There are other admirable reform efforts in Congress including those that would lower sentences for low level, non-violent offenders and refocus prison resources on rehabilitation and lowering recidivism rates.
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Our members honor the United States Constitution, and we agree with some of the stated goals of these would-be reformers, particularly when it comes to significantly reducing recidivism rates.
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As we wait for legislative reforms aimed at tackling recidivism, America's private businesses can help put a stop to this ruinous cycle by equipping offenders with jobs and work experience.
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It broke into the mainstream in 2016 when a ProPublica investigation described how an algorithm called COMPAS used in Broward County, Florida, overestimated the risk of recidivism by black defendants.
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As of this week, all inmates have been assessed using a risk and needs assessment tool so that they can be assigned to the right rehabilitation and recidivism reduction programs.
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An offender's role in the offense, motive and general character; whether a defendant accepted responsibility and displayed remorse; the probability of recidivism, and victim input can't be captured by equations.
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As the United States continues to look for ways to reduce recidivism, we should remember that individuals commit crimes when they are unable to control their emotions and their impulses.
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The evidence-based programs are designed to reduce offenders' risk of recidivism — that is, of returning to a life of crime — and increase their chances of successfully re-entering society.
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The White House on Tuesday said it sees no path forward for legislation to reduce mandatory minimum prison sentences, instead throwing its support behind measures aimed at reducing recidivism rates.
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" In its recidivism report, ODNI defines confirmation of re-engaging as, "A preponderance of information which identifies a specific former GTMO detainee as directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities.
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In one experiment in which he was involved, inmates at a maximum-security prison were given psilocybin, a hallucinogen derived from mushrooms, to see if it reduced their recidivism rate.
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The connection between higher education and reduced recidivism has been well established: One study found that inmates who earned an associate's degree were 62 percent less likely to return to prison.
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An analysis of several surveys on restorative justice programs around the world found that in most cases, participation in restorative justice programs reduced recidivism rates among offenders, and warrants more study.
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Even if we could do a perfect job predicting voting behavior, or recidivism, or employment performance, what does it mean for this to be an automated process versus a human one?
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A pilot run of the program has shown a reduction in recidivism and an improved view of criminal justice agencies among participants, a study by the Court Center for Innovation says.
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In a study published in 2013 Mr Waters, along with fellow researchers William Bales and Thomas Blomberg, looked at the link between recidivism and the presence of tattoos in Florida prisoners.
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Earlier versions of the bill also would have given judges more power to impose a lighter sentence if they could show a defendant's criminal history or risk of recidivism was exaggerated.
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The law, called the First Step Act, eases harsh sentencing rules for non-violent offenders and requires the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons to implement new programs to help reduce recidivism.
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Despite his poor performance during his hearing, Simpson's good behavior in prison and his low risk factors for recidivism were enough to persuade the board that he should be released early.
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Indeed, a scientific study seems to show that recidivism is 10 percent less frequent for Bollate inmates than any other Italian prisons, making it a widely held model for other penitentiaries.
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This isn't a castle in the air; academic studies of Prison Fellowship's intensive, values-based reentry programs have shown that they dramatically reduce both recidivism and re-incarceration among its graduates.
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The bill requires the Bureau of Prisons to expand programs that reduce recidivism rates and allows eligible inmates who successfully complete the programs to earn credit toward time in prerelease custody.
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According to a newly released report by The Pew Charitable Trusts, three-year recidivism rates compiled from data among 23 states decreased by 23 percent over a period of seven years.
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The recidivism rates we lament all of the time are higher than we want at any number, but even the most discouraging rates reveal that a majority of people don't reoffend.
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We've also seen our prison population reach its lowest level since 1994 due to fewer and fewer arrests and prison admissions and while continuing to see meaningful drops in recidivism rates.
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One of its companion bills would codify an official definition of "recidivism," which refers to an offender's relapse into crime, and a fundamental measure of the success of Michigan's corrections system.
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Recidivism-reduction programs operated by faith groups inside the nation's correctional facilities have proven to be some of the most effective methods of stopping the revolving door of jails and prisons.
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Beyond the Frisbee games and free pizza, North Dakota's prison directors say the benefit in the long run -- reducing the state's recidivism rate -- is worth giving this new approach a chance.
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Black offenders do have higher recidivism rates than white offenders in the data set used (for reasons too numerous and complex to get into here), but the evaluations don't reflect that.
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In cases of significant wrongdoing, U.S. authorities generally seek the appointment of a monitor - a person from outside the company, often a lawyer, who serves as a watchdog to prevent recidivism.
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Women in Recovery programs last 17 months and cost $19,700 on average; after that, the woman is in a job, and recidivism over the next three years is just 4.9 percent.
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We also know that these systems — from predictive policing (algorithms for predicting where crime is likely to occur) to criminal risk assessments (algorithms for predicting recidivism) — disproportionately harm people of color.
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The country has never been more cognizant of its brutal past, or more resolved to a better, more inclusive future — and yet its stubborn capacity for recidivism is impossible to ignore.
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After all, recidivism rates in the US are high — more than half of prisoners released are reincarcerated within three years — and most of these individuals are housed in public correctional facilities.
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Inmates who choose to participate in prison programs look very different from those who do not, so it is not clear that the educational programs induce the differences in recidivism cited.
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Despite her busy schedule, Judge Batts made time to help former prisoners, working evenings as part of a Southern District program called RISE aimed at reducing recidivism among at-risk offenders.
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Likewise, because federal, state or local governments lack the initial capital needed to invest in early education or fund programs that reduce recidivism, they end up paying higher long-term costs.
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The congressman said the the recidivism rates with alcohol addiction was no longer near that of opioids, adding that more resources needed to be put into helping addicts change their lifestyles.
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Over time, it also developed more careful diplomatic and monitoring plans with receiving countries to ease their reintegration into society that reduced, but obviously did not eliminate, the risk of recidivism.
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But in the 30 years since that Psychology Today article was published, there have been hundreds of evidence-based, scientific studies on the question of the recidivism rate for sex offenders.
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The Prison Reform and Redemption Act addresses the former, making key improvements to the way prisoners are treated and equipped for reentry, which will ultimately reduce recidivism and lower prison populations.
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But providing inmates with a path that leads to education makes them productive members of society, which will not only reduce recidivism but also help lead to a safer, more productive society.
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"Risk factors for general recidivism are not the same as for future intimate partner violence," said Dr. Jill Messing, an IPV expert who specializes in risk assessment and femicide at Arizona State.
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Allowing incarcerated people to connect with those outside prison, for free and in ways that can be monitored, may likely reduce recidivism and clean up the cell phone contraband problem as well.
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Failure to link emerging inmates to health insurance is a missed opportunity to improve health and save money by cutting recidivism as well as visits to the hospital emergency room, advocates say.
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With a recidivism rate of 77 percent among felons, providing a job to those coming out of prison is widely considered a mandatory first step in defeating the poverty-to-prison cycle.
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Predictive as they may be, it would be hard and probably foolish to argue that the tattoos cause the recidivism; far more likely that both reflect something else about character and circumstance.
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A 21990 New York State report found that the state's offenders for all crimes had a three-year reconviction rate (a recidivism standard that should produce much lower numbers) of 22005 percent.
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Women at the Ohio Reformatory for Women are able to spend up to three years in the nursery with their prison-born babies, and their rate of recidivism is just three percent.
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The bill requires the DoJ to assess all federal inmates' risks of recidivism and assign them to proper programs, including work and education programs, drug rehabilitation, job training, and faith-based programs.
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Opponents of Obama's plan point to a 30 percent recidivism rate that represents detainees released by both Obama and President George W. Bush who are confirmed or suspected of returning to battle.
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Adrienne Wheeler started the Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana (JACL) in 2011 to deal with drought in legal representation needed to assist those getting out of prison and to stop recidivism.
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By treating incarcerated women with dignity and giving them basic support, we not only improve public safety and reduce recidivism, we live out our values, making our criminal justice system more just.
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Occupational licensing reform is an important component in reducing recidivism, because those with a criminal record who find steady employment in a field they enjoy are less likely to return to crime.
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For individuals charged with more serious marijuana crimes (distribution), courts should explore the use of alternative sentencing programs like drug courts and evaluate their effectiveness in reducing substance use, recidivism and costs.
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Without a strong support system or a steady job, DOL said, many once-incarcerated people are likely to commit new crimes and return to jail: a cycle of recidivism that recurs nationally.
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Police and prosecutor groups want to make sure that Mr. Trump realizes that support for them includes backing proposals for change, which they say will reduce crime as well as recidivism rates.
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Senators voted 87-2023 on the legislation, which merges a House-passed prison reform bill aimed at reducing recidivism with a handful of changes to sentencing laws and mandatory minimum prison sentences.
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Faith based providers such as Prison Fellowship have proven their ability to improve our nation's recidivism epidemic by working with federal, state and local officials to establish programming that includes biblical values.
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The bill may not be the comprehensive criminal justice reform that everyone wants, but it does mark an important step toward lowering recidivism rates and promoting safety in communities across the country.
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The executive order asks for ways to reduce recidivism and better re-entry for those coming out of the criminal justice system, but does not suggest looking at changes to sentencing guidelines.
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Bobby Rush, Elijah Cummings, G.K. Butterfield and Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a letter to the FCC's general counsel that "overpriced phone rates" deter communications with outside support systems that reduce recidivism.
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That in turn will enable each state to set reasonable short and long-term goals for recidivism reduction, help identify successful strategies and help ensure accountability when state goals are not achieved.
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A ProPublica study found that COMPAS predicts black defendants will have higher risks of recidivism than they actually do, while white defendants are predicted to have lower rates than they actually do.
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In Scandinavia, a prison-abolition movement led to, if not the eradication of prisons, a shift to "open prisons" that emphasize reintegrating people into society and have had very low recidivism rates.
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Families against Mandatory Minimums, a prison reform advocacy group, say the initiative should extend to prisoners considered "medium- and high-risk," given that recidivism rates tend to be higher among that population.
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Mr. Kushner has taken the reins on the project and is pushing legislation that could help decrease recidivism by offering incentives for prisoners, including job training programs, halfway houses and early release.
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Trump apparently tuned in and felt like he didn't get enough credit for the First Step Act he signed in December, which reduced some federal drug sentences and looked to reduce recidivism.
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States that permanently take away the right to vote have higher rates of recidivism than those that do not, according to a 2012 study published in The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal.
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Ms. Meyerson notes that Mr. Sessions's "War on Drugs Redux" will put more brown and black people in jail, expand the private prison system and cut funding to programs that curb recidivism.
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Research by the Indiana Department of Correction found that unemployment was the greatest predictor of recidivism, with unemployed offenders being more than twice as likely to reoffend than those with a job.
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But another new report released last week highlights key ways in which state and local governments' approach to reentry and recidivism reduction is fundamentally different today than it was 85033 years ago.
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As The New York Times has reported recently, empirical research doesn't support the widespread belief in a high recidivism rate among sex offenders, a great majority of whom aren't known to reoffend.
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In late January, Facebook announced it had tightened its recidivism policy, aiming to prevent repeat offenders from using other pages they manage to continue behavior that violates the social media company's rules.
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While there are a number of predictors for recidivism (or the tendency for a former prisoner to reoffend), finding employment is one of the most important steps to assimilating back into society.
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In part because Norway employs data-backed approaches to reducing recidivism (like those endorsed in a 2007 US Department of Justice study), only 20 percent of released prisoners reenter the Norwegian system.
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" A report in the Journal of Korean Medical Science in 2013 said that chemical castration "results in very low levels of recidivism despite the strong psychological factors that contribute to sexual offending.
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Other research has shown that people who have extended visits tend to do better post-release as well, demonstrating higher likelihood of employment, more positive parole outcomes, and lower rates of recidivism.
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It's a cost-effective program for sure — I don't mean to knock it, and its recidivism effects are great and important — but it didn't have the labor market outcomes you'd hope for.
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Few registered sex offenders go on to commit another sex crime — studies have estimated recidivism rates between 5 and 15 percent, which sounds high but is relatively low compared with other crimes.
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Privacy advocates have warned that AI could be abused by law enforcement agencies—it's difficult to keep bias from creeping into algorithms, as ProPublica recently documented in software designed to predict recidivism.[PrivacySOS]
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The prison cursing ban is a new twist in a larger effort to overhaul Russia's prisons, moving away from the large, common barracks of the gulag, which are seen as contributing to recidivism.
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They're transforming our system from the inside out by helping to prevent people from carrying felony and misdemeanor criminal records; reducing drug use and recidivism; and improving education, employment, housing, and family stability.
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" In the Senate, Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchison asserted, "The repeat crime rate for sex offenders is estimated to be as much as ten times higher than the recidivism rate of other criminals.
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His new correction commissioner, Scott Semple, is moving quickly to convert former prisons into "reintegration centers" that fight recidivism by providing drug counseling, job training and other services to inmates returning to society.
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Today, the Oscar winner, 58, is proud that the program continues to thrive in over ten California prisons and has significantly reduced the recidivism rate for people who have gone through the program.
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" Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin want to pass "comprehensive legislation to review prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug offenders, reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.
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Parole board members Adam Endel, Connie Bisbee, Susan Jackson and Tony Corda voted unanimously to grant Simpson's release, citing his lack of prior criminal convictions, community support and a low risk of recidivism.
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It's a dire situation, but across the Atlantic, Nordic prisons have adopted an opposite approach which has yielded substantially lower incarceration and recidivism rates ( ten and three times lower respectively) at lesser costs.
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Hardly a rural area, Seattle was a pioneer in police diversion with the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, which dramatically reduced recidivism and costs associated with the jail and emergency room visits.
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All federal prisoners who are eligible to participate and who complete one or more recidivism reduction programs receive for incentives developed by the Bureau of Prisons, such as increased telephone or visitation privileges.
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So despite the recidivism facts, the "free them to save money" arguments are overriding the reality that we are releasing people ill equipped to re-enter society with lackluster or non-existing supervision.
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The Prison Reform and Redemption Act aims to incentivize prisoners to participate in recidivism-reduction programs by allowing them to serve the final days of their sentences in halfway houses or home confinement.
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For a prisoner to reduce his or her sentence, they'd need to be determined by the Bureau of Prisons as a "low risk" for recidivism and earn credits through certain activities and programs.
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The challenge for programs such as Iftiin's is to be able to evaluate success without pointing to a low recidivism rate that may have little if anything to do with the program itself.
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The network has started a group called Safe Streets and Second Chances, which will use a $4 million infusion to launch a new pilot program aimed at reducing recidivism rates among former prisoners.
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"The Department is committed to and has been working towards full implementation of the First Step Act, which will help us effectively deploy resources to help reduce risk, recidivism, and crime," he said.
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Established in 85033 and run by Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Federal Prison Industries (FPI) created UNICOR to keep prisoners busy while they are serving time, and to reduce the rate of recidivism.
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It found that widely used software that assessed the risk of recidivism in criminals was twice as likely to mistakenly flag black defendants as being at a higher risk of committing future crimes.
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But the new report released this week also highlights key ways in which state and local governments' approach to reentry and recidivism reduction is fundamentally different today than it was 15 years ago.
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But she argued that prisons must train inmates to become responsible citizens capable of re-entering society, and noted that the recidivism rate of inmates in similar programs is far lower than average.
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For instance, Cook consistently cited a 2014 Bureau of Justice Statistics study that he suggested found a 77 percent rate of recidivism—the tendency for criminals to commit new offenses—among violent criminals.
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Now, nearly a year and a half later, the White House has declared that reducing recidivism and improving prisoner education is a top priority — echoing some of the very policies it helped dismantle.
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"When you think about the long-term cost of recidivism, that's a huge cost on the public," said Lucius Couloute, a policy analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit think tank.
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If the goal of the criminal justice system is to rehabilitate and provide people with the skills and tools required to prevent recidivism, Tuttle said we have to advocate for better living conditions.
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The new contracts provide that if the overall recidivism rate of individuals in their facilities falls below a certain level, the state will reward the providers by paying one percent more per prisoner.
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Whereas, nationally, recidivism for released prisoners is above 60 percent, "people who are found N.G.R.I. tend to go back out into the community, and they tend to do really, really well," Fitch says.
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Signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2018, the First Step Act aims to reduce the sentences of low-level offenders and bolster programs to help reduce high rates of recidivism.
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State and federal registry laws form a complex web of restrictions that make it nearly impossible for adult offenders to find stable housing and employment, both of which are crucial to reducing recidivism.
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Having followed those at the core of three-strikes reform for three years, we've been struck by the encouraging results: hundreds of families reunited, millions of dollars saved, and recidivism rates remarkably low.
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While UNICOR says it provides a vital recidivism service and teaches life skills to inmates, the actual result is that they literally steal millions of dollars in government contracts from the free market.
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In her new book,"Weapons of Math Destruction", Cathy O'Neil, a data scientist, points out that some factors, such as race or coming from a high-crime neighbourhood, might be excellent predictors of recidivism.
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The West must enable entrepreneurs to solve our biggest problems by testing ideas in competing innovation zones, such as delivering cheap, high-quality healthcare, preparing students for the workforce, building housing and reducing recidivism.
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Yang has vowed to investigate racial disparities in the criminal justice system and to better fund programs aimed at reducing recidivism and aiding re-entry to society for people who have completed their terms.
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External oversight will likely result in safer prisons for inmates and employees alike, more effective rehabilitation programs, a healthier prison culture that supports positive outcomes and taxpayer savings from fewer lawsuits and lessened recidivism.
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A bipartisan bill ending a ban on prisoners' access to Pell Grants was introduced after several studies came out earlier this year that show higher education can reduce incarceration costs and recidivism, NPR reports.
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When released prisoners can't find work, it contributes to a costly, negative social and economic cycle of recidivism, crime, and ultimately perhaps a return to imprisonment, all at the expense of taxpayers and communities.
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The bill would instruct the Federal Bureau of Prisons to take a more personalized approach and expand the availability of education, vocational training, mental health and drug treatment, which are proven to reduce recidivism.
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A study released last year by In the Public Interest found that people released from private prisons were more likely to reoffend, and attributed this increased recidivism to the increased violence in private facilities.
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And last week, Sessions appeared to offer a mixed assessment of programs targeted at reducing recidivism when asked in a House Judiciary Committee hearing, but said he believed pre-release programs can be effective.
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The practical benefits of face-to-face visits for people in jail are well established: They help them maintain a connection to the outside world and prepare them for life after release, reducing recidivism.
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Three years ago, as attorney general, I established the Smart on Crime initiative to reduce draconian mandatory minimum sentencing for low-level drug offenses and encourage more investment in rehabilitation programs to tackle recidivism.
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The FIRST STEP Act is modeled after the successful, evidence-based initiatives of more than 30 states to reduce recidivism rates by providing rehabilitative programming — including drug treatment, education, and job training — in prisons.
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Only six factors, it writes, are actually used in the recidivism prediction, not the 137 mentioned in the study (those data are used for other determinations; the software does more than this one task).
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But denying mental health care, whether intentionally or not, to individuals doing time isn't just unconstitutional, it can create bigger problems down the line: declining mental health, extended sentences, and increased risk of recidivism.
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These reforms, which have been tested in deep red states such as Texas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, have been proven to reduce crime through lowering rates of recidivism, which means prisoners reoffending upon release.
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At Mr. Loomis's sentencing, the judge cited, among other factors, Mr. Loomis's high risk of recidivism as predicted by a computer program called COMPAS, a risk assessment algorithm used by the state of Wisconsin.
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The White House recently hired Brooke Rollins, a conservative lawyer who advocated such changes in Texas, a state that is often held up by both conservatives and liberals as a leader in reducing recidivism.
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Another reform to reduce recidivism is that federal prisoners have to be housed in facilities within 500 miles from their homes, which makes it easier and less expensive for family members to visit them.
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But studies in several counties show their effort at overhauling the bail system have been successful at achieving two main goals: Making sure people show up for their court dates and reducing recidivism rates.
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They are also in aging buildings that are dangerous for the jailed and the jailers, and they lack the needed space for programming that makes re-entry to society easier and recidivism less likely.
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In a video promoting his 2014 campaign, he said that rehabilitation is "not something for the criminal justice system to do" and that inmate programs such as job training rewarded criminals and promoted recidivism.
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Since the House map was first drafted in 2011, it has become an exercise in political recidivism — challenged often in court, struck down three times, but always emerging with a pronounced bias favoring Republicans.
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As we talk about prison population reduction and recidivism reduction, we need to talk in terms of people - an investment in the people in our custody, in our corrections systems and in our communities.
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Some states are working to break the recidivism cycle by making sure that inmates are signed up for Medicaid when they are released, so that they can have access to proper medication and care.
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A 2017 USSC study showed that offenders without any previous contact with the criminal justice system had an 11.7 percent lower recidivism rate than those with at least some prior contact with law enforcement.
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They also said there was "no chance of recidivism," and that Ng could assure the court that once in China, he would not seek to return to the United States or conduct business there.
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While castration hasn't been tested on abusers in the Harvey Weinstein style, it's been used with success on child molesters, bringing the recidivism rate, or so I'd read somewhere, from 75 percent to 2 percent.
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Rates of recidivism are low and a great deal of effort is made to keep young offenders out of the prison system; police work with parents to keep young people on the straight and narrow.
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The organization will provide scholarships to African-American students majoring in mental health, offer mental health services to youth in urban schools and work to lower the recidivism rates of African-American men and women.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy—counselling prisoners on how to avoid the places, people and situations that prompt them to commit crimes—can reduce recidivism by 10-30%, and is especially useful in dealing with young offenders.
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The legislation is a carefully calibrated bill that will allow the agency to consider costs and the needs of families, prisons and jails to ensure predatory telephone rates do not exacerbate recidivism in our country.
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Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said during a White House briefing that migrants returned to Mexico under a program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have a 9% recidivism rate.
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As part of the new campaign, the network also wants to encourage others in the business world to hire former inmates and donate to education and job-training programs aimed at reducing recidivism, Davis said.
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Unfortunately, there are very few studies on SI as a whole and less information still about things like recidivism rates, so there's no real way to make sure these things are effective long-term options.
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Critics of Obama's plan to close the Guantánamo detention facility are certain to use the new totals to bolster their arguments that the recidivism rate is too high to continue releasing prisoners to foreign countries.
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There are many more examples of faith based programs instituted within local jails, state prisons and federal prisons that have proven to be effective in reducing recidivism through training addressing values, vocational, and skills deficits.
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These efforts are supported by a strong evidence base: a 2013 meta-analysis of correctional education programs found that education reduces the likelihood of recidivism, and increases post-release job placement, by about 13 percent.
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Without long-term treatment, recidivism among the addicted is high, because while they may become drug-free while incarcerated, the lack of support and continued treatment after their release leaves them especially vulnerable to relapse.
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The House Judiciary Committee is expected next week to mark up a Republican proposal that aims to reduce prison recidivism rates, according to a senior Republican staffer who has been briefed on the plans. Rep.
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In California, the Santa Clara Superior Court is testing a pilot program called Court Appointed Friend & Advocate (CAFA), which pairs at-risk juvenile offenders with mentors to lower their chances of recidivism after they're released.
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After learning that the recidivism rate for prisoners released from the Arizona Department of Corrections is approximately 40 percent after the first year of release, I wondered how my state, Arizona, compares to other states.
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The disparity between state and federal recidivism rates may reflect what is sometimes called "criminal menopause": Men are most likely to commit violent crimes before age 24, with the likelihood falling as they get older.
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President Trump gave his support to legislation that could begin a major overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system, lowering mandatory minimum sentences for some nonviolent drug offenses and directing money to anti-recidivism programs.
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Students look at the nation's and world's problems and hunt for solutions — to improve the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in China, for example, or to reduce recidivism rates for U.S. prisons.
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Her skepticism of the Saudis' "deradicalization programs" also was prescient, considering the Mohammed bin Nayef Center for Counseling and Care, where Islamic radicalism is allegedly purged, but whose graduates have a high rate of recidivism.
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He also has vowed to investigate racial disparities in the criminal justice system and to better fund programs aimed at reducing recidivism and aiding re-entry to society for people who have completed their terms.
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Most importantly, the odds are that they will be less likely to engage in this behavior again than they would through a carceral-only approach, which has been shown to lead to high recidivism rates.
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"There is a body of evidence indicating that the President is a recidivist, and his recidivism is something that should not go unnoticed because of the harm it is causing to American people," he said.
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Because prosecutors are usually not required to report on their programs and many diversion agreements are not filed in court, there is little quantifiable data on fees, success rates, recidivism or even who is rejected.
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During a keynote address at a symposium hosted by the Ford Foundation, the then–California attorney general — now Democratic candidate for president — laid out her vision for a crime recidivism reduction initiative in Los Angeles.
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The WRAP court program in Cook County has reduced recidivism rates, and 87 percent of graduates of the program will not have another felony drug charge in the three years after completion of the program.
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Not only are all but a small fraction of the youthful offenders nonviolent, but the group also has the highest recidivism rate of any demographic — about 67 percent, versus 41 percent for offenders over 25.
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A prison education program created by Bard College in 2001 boasts a remarkable recidivism rate of 4 percent for inmates who merely participated in the program and 403 percent for those who earned degrees in prison.
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On the other hand, states that remove these barriers allow more of the formerly incarcerated to find employment and become productive members of the community, reducing recidivism and making our country a safer place to live.
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The program, which has been operating in Seattle for years and yielded declines in recidivism and savings for the city, offers services like housing and treatment for mental health and substance abuse as alternatives to jail.
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Scientifically rigorous evaluations have shown repeatedly that employment-focused reentry have little success, The Labor Department's own large-scale experimental evaluation of the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders grants found them to be ineffective at reducing recidivism.
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Studies have shown that being isolated in a small cell for up to 22 hours each day can have particularly negative psychological effects on the developing brains of teenagers and that it may also increase recidivism.
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But the White House and Democrats who have supported closure remained undeterred by the new numbers, saying the recidivism rate is much lower than it was under President George W. Bush and actually reinforces Obama's plan.
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The debate in Wisconsin highlights a broader national discussion about how law enforcement officials use predictive data — including deciding which streets to patrol, identifying people at risk of being shot and calculating the likelihood of recidivism.
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The theme for the weekend retreat is "Breaking Barriers: Because Free People are Capable of Extraordinary Things," and the network will be touting new initiatives aimed at reducing recidivism rates among former prisoners, among other things.
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A risk assessment tool that correctly predicts recidivism 99 percent of the time (and COMPAS is only accurate 61 percent of the time) will still harm 1 percent of offenders by wrongly labeling them high-risk.
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Some policymakers might be unmoved by the hardship these families are enduring, but everyone who cares about reducing crime and recidivism should recognize that reducing the quantity and quality of reentry services will undermine public safety.
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Julia Dressel and Hany Farid of Dartmouth college looked into the system amid growing skepticism that automated systems like COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) can accurately predict something as complex as recidivism rates.
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Using these numbers, it appears that a reasonable goal for Arizona would be to reduce the three-year recidivism rate by at least 5 percentage points, which would place us at or below the national average.
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Her Art for Justice Fund disbursed its second tranche of grants last week, diverting the art market's immense wealth to organizations fighting to reform bail procedures, prevent recidivism, educate children of prisoners and end discriminatory sentencing.
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It would focus on recidivism reduction programs and require the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to do risk assessments on which inmates can qualify and earn credits toward completing their sentences in halfway houses or home confinement.
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But when family visits are appropriate, studies show that implementing them in a child-friendly way helps maintain the familial connection, potentially mitigates some of the separation trauma for both parent and child and reduces recidivism.
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In such illustrious company and with fewer options left on the outside, it's no surprise that Russia's recidivism rate is sky-high: more than four out of five inmates are frequent guests at the big house.
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"We know that sexual assault is a crime with a high rate of recidivism, so prior incidents of sexual assault really are relevant to the question of whether a defendant committed this specific allegation," she added.
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Teaching marketable job skills, treating mental health needs and substance abuse, providing educational opportunities, building social and team skills, and strengthening our halfway houses are all demonstrable ways of reducing recidivism and personal patterns of crime.
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When Ms. Lynch addressed the recidivism problem last year, she announced a much larger commitment of federal funding: $53 million in "second-chance" grants for groups working with freed inmates to prevent a return to prison.
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"When we enforce our recidivism policy against Pages, the admins can still maintain their profiles on Facebook but are no longer able to create and use a Page akin to one we've removed," the spokesperson explained.
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There have been several studies on recidivism, but one of the most extensive was released in 173 by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), which tracked more than 25,000 federal offenders over an eight-year period.
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Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, sought assurances that Mr. Barr that he would implement the new bill, which lowers mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, promotes anti-recidivism programs, and expands early release.
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The network of conservative groups helmed by Charles and David Koch launched a $4 million pilot program in January with the Texas Public Policy Foundation aimed at reducing recidivism rates called Safe Streets and Second Chances.
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Initiatives with the boldest imaginations and the most unorthodox methods are often the ones that reduce violence and recidivism, renew trust, and offer viable alternatives to crime for people caught in cycles of poverty and transgression.
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Arguing that a wider overhaul lacks congressional support, the Trump administration recommended more prison work programs, more partnerships with businesses to help ex-prisoners find jobs and more funding for programs to reduce state prison recidivism.
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According to Mark Rampersant, head of the DOE's Office of Safety and Youth Development, there has been just one case of recidivism in the 2015–2016 school year, in which a student has received two warning cards.
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For example, a meta-analysis of 20 years of research in the Journal of Crime and Justice noted that none of the six studies on registries conducted between 1995 and 2011 found that the registries lowered recidivism.
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Similarly, none of the eight studies between 2003 and 2012 of bans on where registrants can live found that they had any effect on sex crime rates or recidivism, according to a US Department of Justice summary.
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The roadmap also includes exploring data around incarcerations and better understanding of what goes on in jails and state prisons, as well as ending the vicious cycle of recidivism, which involves returning to prison following being released.
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The measures include a shift away from the use of solitary confinement, strategies seeking to reduce recidivism, and an effort to keep juveniles and the mentally ill out of jail through the use of early intervention programs.
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"When we enforce our recidivism policy against Pages, the admins can still maintain their profiles on Facebook but are no longer able to create and use a Page akin to one we've removed," the spokesperson told CNN.
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The pilot is a worthwhile initiative, but it barely begins to reap the potential benefits of lower recidivism, lower incarceration rates, and improved tax revenues from the participation of gainfully employed returning citizens in the local economy.
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The legislation — which merges a House-passed bill aimed at reducing prisoner recidivism with several reforms to sentencing laws and mandatory minimum prison sentences — is the most sweeping reform to the criminal justice system in a generation.
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Because efforts to help people make a successful transition back to mainstream society both reduce recidivism and equip former prisoners to be effective parts of the work force, it will help our economy over the long term.
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It's not something a client must avail themselves of, but it could be valuable for both ex-cons (who struggle to find work, thus raising recidivism rates) and for employers (particularly in a red-hot labor market).
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While some deportees have taken their own lives or been caught dealing drugs, the recidivism rate in Cambodia is lower than in the United States, according to Bill Herod, the founder of the Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization.
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The Second Chance Pell Pilot Program is reinvigorating education programs in prisons nationwide, which offers a renewed opportunity to examine the effect of correctional education on recidivism — a crucial policy question in the age of mass incarceration.
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The recidivism rankings were wrong about 40 percent of the time, with blacks more likely to be falsely rated as future criminals at almost twice the rate of whites, according to Julia Angwin, who led the investigation.
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According to a recent brief from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, South Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and several other states have seen recidivism rates fall significantly, meaning fewer people are leaving prison and committing new crimes.
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The Trump administration's plan calls for sensible reforms such as creating incentives for inmates to complete programs that reduce recidivism and instituting prison work programs that train inmates to do jobs available in the economy upon release.
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A Baptist preacher, Walker believes many of America's systemic social problems, including poverty and what he sees as the breakdown of the traditional family, stem from a broken justice system paralyzed by high incarceration and recidivism rates.
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For example, while the public almost universally embraces the strict residency restrictions the Supreme Court and lower courts have ratified, study after study has shown that rather than reduce sexual violence, these residency restrictions actually increase recidivism.
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The House-passed bill, which would authorize new spending designed to reduce recidivism and make other changes geared toward improving prisoners' quality of life, is a top priority for Trump son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
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But while laying out her vision for "smart on crime" criminal justice reform in California, Harris told the symposium audience that the smartest way to address crime recidivism is by preventing it –– which means targeting young people.
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While there's some debate around how the data behind such statistics is interpreted, recidivism is way too often the result of institutional failure to provide prisoners with any kind of support before, and especially after, their release.
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Another study paid for by the Indiana Department of Correction found that while all kinds of inmate education has a positive influence on recidivism, inmates who take college courses have a prison return rate of less than 5%.
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The policy Facebook is pointing to here is its "recidivism policy," which bans users who are removed from Facebook from making new accounts or Pages that are similar in name or appearance to the Page that was removed.
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Despite the oft-repeated claim that such data-driven approaches are more objective than past methods of determining the risk of recidivism or anything else, it's clear that our very human biases have rubbed off on our machines.
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Economic crimes are one of the leading causes of recidivism, by simply changing the skill set we're teaching inmates we can make a significant impact on both their future and the future of the communities they return to.
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The Texas model has been so successful that legislatures in several other traditionally Republican states have followed suit, passing justice reinvestment initiatives of their own in recent years, with a goal of reducing recidivism and enhancing public safety.
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Researchers behind an algorithm designed to help judges make bail decisions claim it can predict recidivism so effectively that the same number of people could be bailed as are at present by judges, but with 20% less crime.
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Similarly, banning the box, a well-intentioned endeavor to break the cycle of high recidivism amongst offenders being released, may actually increase discrimination against certain demographic groups instead of increasing applicants with a criminal history's chances of employment.
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Moreover, within the former inmate population, those experiencing sharper drops in credit availability are more likely to engage in future criminal activity: For each thousand dollars of available credit card limit lost, recidivism increases by 1.4 percentage points.
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Members of the House and Senate should follow the lead of their colleagues in the House Judiciary Committee and rally around this opportunity to begin breaking the cycle of recidivism, keeping families together, and creating safer, stronger communities.
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And then in 2011, Texas doubled down on our reforms by enacting a policy allowing those in state jails to earn time by completing programs, such as educational, vocational and treatment interventions, that are correlated with reduced recidivism.
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And with recidivism rates in this country standing at around 65 percent, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics, giving prisoners something positive to focus on can have a tremendously positive influence on prisoner reintegration, and, hence, on society.
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The value of higher education to combat recidivism is intuitively part of the equation — but even if that were not the case, the economic cost-benefit analysis alone should make the case for change, now rather than later.
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Just like other ambitious goals that local, state, and federal leaders embraced long before setting their sights on reducing recidivism — such as reducing teenage pregnancy or improving high school graduation rates — unqualified success will require decades of work.
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Whenever the Obama administration does transfer a detainee, Republican critics portray that step as reckless, arguing that "recidivism" data shows that one of every three who are released will go on to engage in terrorist or insurgent activity.
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With nearly five million people in the nation under supervision — more than twice the number housed in prisons and jails — the parole and probation systems have become what corrections researchers now describe as a significant driver of recidivism.
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Those amendments would have excluded child molesters and other violent felons from early release, required notification of victims before offenders are let out of prison early and included a plan to track the effectiveness of anti-recidivism programs.
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Although ultimately withdrawn, New York State's 1115 proposal to extend Medicaid services to incarcerated people 30 days before release provides a good blueprint for similar initiatives, with a goal to decrease emergency-room visits, hospitalizations, overdoses and recidivism.
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That means that as policymakers evaluate a social program, they should weigh not only its direct and second-order benefits — from reducing crime and recidivism to increasing productivity — but also its effect on lowering federal health care costs.
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But in terms of recidivism rates and how they functioned once they were outside of the program and whether there was a clear path to apply what they were learning to the outside world, I didn't see that.
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The First Step Act, enacted this year, aims to reduce recidivism by better preparing nonviolent offenders for life after prison through programs that teach important skills to enable former inmates to provide for themselves without returning to crime.
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Just like other ambitious goals that local, state and federal leaders embraced long before setting their sights on reducing recidivism — such as reducing teenage pregnancy or improving high school graduation rates — full success will require decades of work.
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But behind the statistics on recidivism and taxpayer benefits are real people—fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, neighbors, siblings —who are directly impacted by incarceration and our overly punitive policies that have disproportionately impacted low-income communities of color.
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Carlos Cervantes, a former prisoner himself and part of a "ride home" program founded by the Stanford Three Strikes Project and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, picks him up and guides him through his vulnerable first hours of freedom.
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Judge Alice M. Batchelder, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, described "the significant doubt cast by recent empirical studies on the pronouncement in Smith that 'the risk of recidivism posed by sex offenders is "frightening and high.
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The First Step Act, which he signed into law in late 85033, is designed to reduce recidivism and increase prison safety and sanitation, reduce taxpayer burdens and empower the formerly incarcerated to reclaim lives of dignity and purpose.
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Recidivism didn't fall, and after two years, only about a fifth of people getting help in the program were formally employed (the same share as people in the control group who got support services but not subsidized jobs).
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The original First Step Act, co-sponsored by Republican Doug Collins of Georgia and Democrat Hakeem Jeffries of New York, passed overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives in May and only focused on reforms aiming at reducing recidivism.
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"A lot of other places are much more transient," Dylan Alban, Director of Implementation and Support for American Prison Data Systems, a b-corporation who brings tablets to prisoners in order to educate and reduce violence and recidivism.
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In a paper entitled "Alternatives to Incarceration in California," Martin and his colleague, Ryken Grattet, found studies that showed the recidivism rate for someone placed under community supervision is, in fact, the same for someone who gets incarcerated.
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It's a vast improvement on the estimated 68% of former state prisoners who are arrested within three years of release, according to a study by the Justice Department about recidivism rates in 30 US states between 2005 and 20173.
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For instance, predictive policing uses data about previous arrests and neighborhoods to direct police to where they might find more crime, and similar systems are used to assess the risk of recidivism for bail, parole, and even sentencing decisions.
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Now, a new study published on Wednesday in Science Advances from Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid and former student Julia Dressel claims to "cast significant doubt on the entire effort of algorithmic recidivism prediction," the authors write.
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In my time in the State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council, I helped pass policies that are smart on crime and focus our public resources on programs that actually reduce crime and recidivism and save taxpayer dollars.
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The Bureau of Prisons would be ordered to utilize proven recidivism reduction programs such as drug rehabilitation, education, skills training, classes on faith and work programs for all federal prisoners in partnership with non-profit and faith-based organizations.
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While the national level of recidivism hovers at 68 percent within the first three years of release, according to a 2018 Department of Justice report, the organization has a rearrest rate currently averaging 19.7 percent for its 0003,000 clients.
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Along with a sky-high employment rate, Defy graduates have a recidivism rate of around 3.2 percent — a stark contrast to the staggering 76.6 percent of former prisoners who land back in jail within 5 years of their release.
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A Republican congresswoman is pressing President Obama for more information on the recidivism rate of former Guantánamo Bay detainees, following the arrest of a former detainee the same day the administration unveiled its plan to close the facility. Rep.
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"To be sure, nothing in this film is easy to hear," Ken Jaworowski wrote in The New York Times about Frida and Lasse Barkfors's documentary, which places the recidivism rate for the park's residents at less than 1 percent.
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These and other reformed policies are aimed at ensuring that penalties more appropriately fit crimes, implementing rehabilitative programs to reduce recidivism, and lowering barriers to opportunity for those with criminal records, affording them and their families a second chance.
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A new report from The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the National Reentry Resource Center highlighted examples of seven states that have significant reductions in recidivism, including Michigan, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado and Arizona.
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The Trump administration will get behind a criminal justice proposal for the first time when Jared Kushner meets with lawmakers to push for a bill to rehabilitate prisoners through educational programs, vocational training and therapy to reduce recidivism rates.
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"At the same time, there are some at-risk inmates who are non-violent and pose a minimal likelihood of recidivism and who might be safer serving their sentences in home confinement rather than in BOP facilities," Barr wrote.
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As the founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives, Milner has drawn attention to problems with predictive policing (algorithmic systems for predicting where crime is likely to occur) and criminal risk assessments (algorithmic systems for predicting recidivism).
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It combines new funding for anti-recidivism programs meant to better prepare inmates to re-enter society and the expansion of early-release credits for prisoners, and reduces some mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, among other changes.
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A new report from The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the National Reentry Resource Center highlighted examples of seven states that have significant reductions in recidivism, including Michigan, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado and Arizona.
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission evaluated the impact of its 2007 reduction in sentences for certain low-level crack cocaine offenders and found no difference in recidivism rates among those who were released early and those who served longer sentences.
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They should instead search for ways to reduce criminal justice budgets by prioritizing preventive measures proved to decrease recidivism and improve public safety such as free drug and alcohol treatment programs, low-cost housing, restorative justice and job training.
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