With many former inmates returning to prison within three years, corrections departments are ditching paper files for digital ...

The two remaining Republican candidates for governor of South Dakota clashed over prison policy Friday night in what might ...

Shantè Richardson founded the Prison Wives Society to provide support for women with incarcerated partners. She is committed to addressing the issue of recidivism rates in the criminal justice system.

Members of the data working group will continue to define recidivism after receiving feedback from other members of the ...

A new study sought to determine the effects of a college-in-prison program, the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). The study found a large and significant reduction in recidivism rates across racial groups ...

We need the department and the Board of Corrections to to see this and emphasize this as a priority. But, you know, a figure that I've seen and I, you know, I haven't done a deep dive into it, but a ...

Why do so many people return to crime after serving their sentence—even in Norway, with one of the world's most humane prison systems? That is the question Olea Linnea Andersson recently explored in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provided their annual ...

Haro is a UCI LIFTED graduate housed at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. I am an incarcerated individual at Richard James Donovan State Prison, Echo Facility. Also, I am a student of the ...

Michigan leaders in prison education met to discuss strategies for expanding post-secondary education within the state’s prison system at a conference where officials highlighted significant growth ...

Several states this year have reported lower rates of recidivism, showing that fewer convicted criminals are being re-arrested after leaving prison. But those statistics hardly tell the full story.