Tag archive for ‘ex-offenders’
Florida’s Cash-Register Justice Stalls Re-entry Success
Florida’s practice of financing its criminal justice system with fees from the indigent creates a vicious cycle of debt for ex-offenders that threatens their successful re-entry into society, according to a new Brennan Center report released on March 23, 2010.
Since 1996, the study shows, the Sunshine state has added more than 20 new categories [...]
Addressing Drug Addiction among Offenders
by Diana DiNitto
Distinguished Teaching Professor,
University of Texas
On November 19, 2009, Professor DiNitto had the opportunity to testify before a hearing of the United States Sentencing Commission, marking the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. She highlights her major points from that appearance in the following commentary.- ED. [...]
Transitional Programs Help Vets in Prison
The following article, a republication with permission from a local hometown Illinois newspaper, illustrates what can be done at local levels, with state support, to help reduce recidivism. Though local in nature, and specific to reentry programs for a special group of inmates, U.S. military veterans, it proves that it’s possible to slash prison [...]
Congress Set to Dump “Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act”
By Thomas Kinney
The prisons are full, recidivism rate 65-70 percent, system is broken, can’t afford it any more, something must be done; we need judicial reform and a just released study confirms that the good old US of A has the highest prison population rate in the world, 756 per 100,000 of the national population. [...]
Recidivism: Work-First Programs May Help
SaSreFrom CITY JOURNAL
By Kimberly Hendrickson
Mayors Put Work First: Reentry programs for ex-prisoners show promise
About 700,000 federal and state prisoners return home each year in America, and most soon commit more crimes. A 2002 Department of Justice study found that over 67 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within three years; about half, in [...]
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