Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
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Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
View More We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported CrimeHighlights The incarcerated population fell to its lowest level since 2003. The adult probation rate is at its lowest point in 35 years. Multiple sources…
View More Are Historic Declines In Offender Accountability-Correctional Numbers Connected To Rising Violence?
Highlights A reader wants to know the percent of offenders employed and in housing before committing their crimes or after prison. Is there a connection…
View More Is There A Connection Between Employment And Housing And Crime?Highlights This article is available as a podcast via YouTube. Do programs for criminal offenders work? Per US Department of Justice data, most don’t. There…
View More Advocates Insist That Offender Rehabilitation Programs Work-Are They Right?Highlights A summary of recommended improvements for law enforcement and the justice system from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.…
View More Recommendations-The President’s Commission on Law EnforcementHighlights In the two models with the larger sample sizes, offenders incarcerated for more than 120 months were approximately 30 percent less likely to recidivate.…
View More Federal Research-Long Prison Sentences Significantly Reduce Crime And RecidivismOffender Rehabilitation And Reentry Programs-What Works “Programs that included group work, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or CBT-like components, counseling, or that used drug court or other…
View More Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’tHighlights Why are prison numbers falling? Are reductions due to criminal justice reform or dramatically reduced crime, arrests, and citizen contacts? An estimated 1,465,200 prisoners…
View More Why Are Prison Numbers Falling?Highlights Will correctional officers stay on the job in prisons and jails during the Coronavirus outbreak? For officers and staff, it’s almost impossible not to…
View More Coronavirus Jails And Prisons-Will Correctional Officers Stay?Highlights The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that probation is a harsh, overzealous trap. But felony cases are flooding the probation system. Recidivism rates are high. More…
View More Is Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?Highlights Development of the US Department of Justice risk and needs assessment could affect as many as 106,000 federal prisoners. If researchers and critics cannot…
View More The Federal Government Will Predict Future Criminal BehaviorHighlights Are we misleading the public about parole and probation? If we can’t start with the truth, we are the problem, not the solution. Author…
View More Telling The Truth About Parole and ProbationHighlights There is a rare increase in property crime. Some suggest that it’s the result of criminal justice reform. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired…
View More Is The Rise in Property Crime Related To Criminal Justice Reform?Highlights Offender recidivism after prison is horrendous. Programs have little to no effect. We need a research initiative similar to cancer. It should be a…
View More Blind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts AllBackground Pew offers data (below) showing a decrease in returns to prison. It uses US Department of Justice research. While we have no reason to…
View More Are Fewer Returns to Prison in Society’s Best Interest?Prison Employment Observations Education and employment programs do not significantly affect offender recidivism. We have to stop being so simplistic when it comes to treatment…
View More Offender Employment and Education Programs Don’t WorkObservations Most offender rehabilitation and treatment programs don’t work. But a new federal report suggests that mental health efforts could reduce recidivism by approximately 21…
View More Most Offender Rehabilitation Programs Don’t Work-A Path Forward? New Federal ReportPrison cells Observations The focus of Trump’s and the Koch Foundation’s new initiative will be individualized treatment programs for offenders rather than the cookie cutter…
View More Trump, Koch and Offender RecidivismSecret Service Police Vehicle Observations Reducing criminal activity is profoundly difficult and depends on self-perception, self-control, peers, empathy, risk, excitement and fear of arrest.…
View More Reducing Criminal Activity is Profoundly Difficult