Highlights The US Department of Justice issued a press release stating that it wants to reduce incarceration. You can’t do that without releasing or deferring…
View More Does The USDOJ Want To Defund Prisons And Release Violent Offenders?Category: Prison-Jail
Over 40 Percent Of Prison Inmates Had Five To Ten Prior Incarcerations
Highlights Seventy-eight percent of inmates had previous incarcerations. Forty-two percent had 5-10 or more incarcerations. The vast majority of prison inmates have multiple previous arrests…
View More Over 40 Percent Of Prison Inmates Had Five To Ten Prior Incarcerations
Is There A Connection Between Employment And Housing And Crime?
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?40% Decrease In Prison Admissions in 2020-Impact On Growing Violence
Highlights The correlation between new criminality and incarceration (or lack of incarceration) seems strong based on rapidly rising violence. The imprisonment rate for 2020 represented…
View More 40% Decrease In Prison Admissions in 2020-Impact On Growing ViolenceIs Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out
Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Who’s telling the truth? Either advocates for…
View More Is Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or OutFederal Recidivism-Dangerous Offenders Arrested More-Longer Sentences Means Less Crime
Highlights The recidivism rate of federal prison inmates hasn’t changed despite efforts to use graduated sanctions or other alternatives to incarceration. Probation, parole, and supervision…
View More Federal Recidivism-Dangerous Offenders Arrested More-Longer Sentences Means Less CrimeRecidivism of Offenders After Prison-A Quick Summation
Highlights A quick overview of the number of people rearrested and reincarcerated after release from prison. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…
View More Recidivism of Offenders After Prison-A Quick SummationOver Two Million Crimes By Released Prisoners After Ten Years
Highlights-Ten Years After Release From Prison Most police chiefs are blaming increased crime on repeat offenders. Based on this and other data, they are…
View More Over Two Million Crimes By Released Prisoners After Ten YearsDoes The US Have The Highest Rates Of Crime And Incarceration?
Highlights Does the US have the highest rates of crime and incarceration? Incarceration numbers going up in other countries while it’s declining in the United…
View More Does The US Have The Highest Rates Of Crime And Incarceration?
Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising Violence
Highlights Violent crime and serious violent crime began to increase by 28 percent in 2015 per the US Department of Justice. The US had the…
View More Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising ViolenceDOJ-Massive Rearrests After Prison-Long Sentences Means Less Crime
Highlights Released prisoners who served less time had higher arrest rates. During the five-year follow-up period, an estimated 1.1 million arrests occurred among the approximately…
View More DOJ-Massive Rearrests After Prison-Long Sentences Means Less CrimeThe Family And Community Pipeline to Crime
Highlights “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans because we do not care about ourselves,…
View More The Family And Community Pipeline to CrimeBail Reform Data-Someone’s Not Telling The Truth
Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Someone’s not telling the truth. Either advocates…
View More Bail Reform Data-Someone’s Not Telling The TruthThe President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t Work
Highlights Until research shows us a better way, dependence on law enforcement and accountability for people who create enormous harm will have to return. Beyond…
View More The President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t WorkMental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have Symptoms
Highlights An overview of US Department of Justice and supplemental data as to mental and emotional health and crime. Most offenders have troubled backgrounds and…
View More Mental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have SymptomsLike Cops-Correctional Officers Are Leaving The Job
Highlights Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant. State correctional agencies are having problems with recruitment and retention. The…
View More Like Cops-Correctional Officers Are Leaving The JobNewsworthy Jail Statistics Form The Department Of Justice
Highlights In three weeks, jails have contact with as many people as prisons do in an entire year. Each year, U.S. jails process an estimated…
View More Newsworthy Jail Statistics Form The Department Of JusticeDid COVID Jail Releases Increase Violence?
Highlights Based on recidivism studies of those released from prisons and those on probation, it’s reasonable to assume that the release of offenders from jails…
View More Did COVID Jail Releases Increase Violence?Most Prisoners Serve Less Than Two Years-Violent Serve Less Than Three
Highlights An overview of time served in prison from the US Department of Justice. Most offenders are out of prison in less than two years.…
View More Most Prisoners Serve Less Than Two Years-Violent Serve Less Than ThreeAdvocates Insist That Offender Rehabilitation Programs Work-Are They Right?
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?