Commentaries 
Rethinking Prison Education in the Era of Mass Incarceration(1)
By
Jeremy Travis
President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Following is the main text of the Keynote Address by President Travis, kicking off the 2/4/2011 University Faculty Senate Conference on “Higher Education in the Prisons.” The thrust of his speech is clearly that public higher education can play an indispensable role promoting successful [...]
Multinational Drug Court Report Shows Cuts in Recidivism
A recently released report prepared by American University, in conjunction with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Commission (CICAD), for the OAS’s April 21-23, 2010 Drug Summit in Lugo, Spain provides proof positive that activities by “drug courts” (DTC’s) in multiple countries effectively and dramatically appear to be reducing offender recidivism rates, while providing significant financial incentives [...]
Teamwork Needed to Keep Ex-Prisoners Out for Life
By Mark Earley
President and CEO of Prison Fellowship,
and former Attorney General of Virginia
The vast majority of inmates, prison cells are not their permanent address. Most prisoners will serve their sentences and then return back into our communities. What kind of neighbors will they be?
If current trends continue, over half of them will be [...]
Cutting Recidivism: What Works, What Doesn’t
By
Edward J. Latessa, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
School of Criminal Justice
University of Cincinnati
There’s a right way and many wrong ways to solve most problems, including the problem of how to reduce high offender recidivism rates. Scholarly researchers have identified the approaches that do work, and revealed those that don’t.-ED
“What works” is not a program or [...]
More in this category:
- Recidivism Cure: Change Inmates’ Hearts, Inside Out
- Addressing Drug Addiction among Offenders
- Wrongful Executions: “Fail-Safe” Judicial Systems Do Fail
- Congress Set to Dump “Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act”
- Chopping Recidivism: Get Out and Stay Out - Part 2
- Chopping Recidivism: Get Out and Stay Out - Part 1
- How to Keep Your Kids Out of Prison
- Hearing: National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009
- Why Tolerate Prisons That Produce 70% Recidivism?
- “Doing Time” by Jack (Murf the Surf) Murphy
