Minnehaha County commissioners heard a presentation Tuesday on a Lutheran Social Services program aimed at reducing domestic ...

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

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

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

In recent years, federal legislation aimed at reforming the criminal justice system, such as the Sentencing Reform Act and Corrections Act, has not passed Congress despite having bipartisan support.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 10—SANTA FE — After several years of declining, New Mexico's rate of inmates who end up back in prison after being released ...

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

Across the country, governors and legislators continue to search for ways to reduce recidivism, control correctional costs and improve public safety. Yet despite decades of reform efforts, state ...

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

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

Republicans are denouncing Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to study whether Virginia’s no parole policies, in effect since 1995, should be eased. Among the most vocal critics is state Sen. Mark ...