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Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council by On December 3, 2023, Tiawana Brown became the first ex-prisoner sworn in to serve on the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina. In September 2023, the self-described “survivor of incarceration” won the Democratic primary in the city’s District 3, her …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors by David Carrillo, 49, was released from prison on January 31, 2024, a month after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted his sentence. Polis praised Carrillo for completing a GED, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business administration while in prison. Carillo is …
Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons by Dressed in maroon shirts—not prison jumpsuits—three prisoners joined the “Dynamo” program at Missouri’s Northeast Correctional Center in November 2023. That brought total enrollment to 17 since the state Department of Correction (DOC) launched the initiative in April 2023, modeling it after …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Educating Prisoners: New Meta-Analysis Reinforces That It Reduces Recidivism by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders With the highest incarceration rate in the world – over six out of every 1,000 people – America has long known there is one thing that consistently reduces recidivism: education. A recent meta-analysis conducted by …
Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed termination of all prospective relief in a long-running class action alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Idaho State …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
Florida and California Experiments Use Direct Cash Assistance to Newly Released Prisoners to Combat Recidivism by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “Guaranteed income is a wayto recognize everyone’s inherent dignity,” declared an op-ed in Florida’s Gainesville Sun on November 5, 2021. Penned by Mayor Lauren Poe (D) and Kevin Scott, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Justice Department Releases Ten-Year Recidivism Study by Matthew Clarke Follows a half-million state prisoners released in 2008 by Matt Clarke From 2016 through 2019, the last years for which reliable data are available, about 10.5 million arrests were made in the U.S. annually. Averaged over a decade, that’s less than …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Colorado Using SWIFT but Cheap Wildlands Firefighters by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For many years PLN has reported on prison systems across the nation like those in Arkansas and Texas that pay prisoners nothing for the work they are required to perform. Others, like Louisiana, pay only pennies per …
Publication • 2021
US DOJ, Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 24 States in 2008, a 10 Year Follow-Up, 2021 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics SEPTEMBER 2021 Special Report NCJ 256094 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 24 States in 2008: A 10-Year Follow-Up Period (2008–2018) Leonardo Antenangeli, …
Publication • 2021
Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism? Yuki Otsu∗† Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo October 21, 2021 Abstract Visitation in prison is associated with a low recidivism rate after release, but the causality is not clear. This paper tries to estimate …
Publication • 2021
US Sentencing Commission - Recidivism of Federal Offenders Released in 2010 ... RECIDIVISM OF FEDERAL OFFENDERS RELEASED IN 2010 UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION September 2021 United States Sentencing Commission One Columbus Circle, N.E. Washington, DC 20002 www.ussc.gov Charles R. Breyer Acting Chair Patricia K. Cushwa Ex Officio Jonathan J. Wroblewski …
Publication • 2021
American Economic Journal, Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recividism, 2021 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2021, 13(2): 408–438 https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20170474 Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism† By Anita Mukherjee* This paper examines the impact of private prison contracting by exploiting staggered …
Publication • 2021
The Sentencing Project, a New Lease on Life, 2021 A New Lease on Life THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Magic as Rehabilitation by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins When facing the harsh reality of incarceration, whether for a few years or several decades, one will soon confront a rather crucial question: “What am I going to do with all this time?” For many, the answer is to distract themselves …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
First Former Felon Elected to Washington State Legislature by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen On Election Day in November 2020, Washington State attorney and former prisoner Tarra Simmons became the first person convicted of a felony elected to the state’s legislature. Prior to the election, she said she …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
The Toughest Love by Julia Lurie For Nearly 50 Years, the Delancey Street Foundation Has Offered an Alternative to Prison. But Does the Celebrated Program Really Work? by Julia Lurie, Mother Jones The headquarters of the Delancey Street Foundation occupies a piece of prime real estate near the base of San …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Prison Art is Rehabilitation by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Fine Cell Work is a London-based prison art initiative aimed at the possible rehabilitative and therapeutic value of creating works of art by the incarcerated. It works with prisoners throughout the United Kingdom, training them in the art of fine …
Publication • 2020
Washington University, Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism, 2020 Does Visitation in Prison Reduce Recidivism? Yuki Otsu∗† Washington University in St. Louis September 25, 2020 Abstract Visitation in prison is associated with a low recidivism rate after release. However, it is not clear whether visitation has a causal effect. This …
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