Observations An overview of sex offender recidivism plus new arrests and convictions for all offenders released from prison. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…
View More Sex Offenders Much More Likely To Be Arrested For Sex CrimesCategory: Recidivism
Nothing Works For Offender Rehabilitation?
Highlights Nothing works (or nothing works well) regarding programs for offenders. If we don’t acknowledge a dismal track record, are we doing more harm than…
View More Nothing Works For Offender Rehabilitation?Parole And Probation Revocations For New Crimes And Technical Violations
Highlights The collective data indicate that most offenders revoked on parole and probation were violated for new crimes, not technical violations. I investigated many cases…
View More Parole And Probation Revocations For New Crimes And Technical ViolationsLowest Rate Of Incarceration In A Decade-Why?
Highlights The prison incarceration rate dropped to its lowest level since 1997. There are two new reports on prison and jail incarceration from the US…
View More Lowest Rate Of Incarceration In A Decade-Why?Prosecutors Now Run Parole and Probation
Highlights Reform-minded prosecutors are setting policy for parole and parole and probation agencies. Change should come from research or the US Department of Justice or…
View More Prosecutors Now Run Parole and ProbationThe Federal Government Will Predict Future Criminal Behavior
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 BehaviorWe Demand Long Prison Terms For Serious Crimes
Highlights Criminal justice reformers are unwilling to defend their principles in controversial cases. I’m for criminal justice reform, but the lack of consistency in the…
View More We Demand Long Prison Terms For Serious CrimesNew Group Seeks To Reform Parole and Probation
Highlights There is no national strategy for parole and probation, there is no research consensus. Programs routinely fail. Recidivism is extremely high. Author Leonard Adam…
View More New Group Seeks To Reform Parole and ProbationViolent Offenders Drive Crime and Incarceration
Highlights Violent repeat offenders are driving America’s crime problem. Data from the US Sentencing Commission (below) and other sources suggest that repeat offenders who committed…
View More Violent Offenders Drive Crime and IncarcerationTelling The Truth About Parole and Probation
Highlights 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 ProbationAre States Truthful About Offender Recidivism?
Highlights States are claiming reduced recidivism yet national data states that five out of six prisoners are rearrested, many multiple times, and that the vast…
View More Are States Truthful About Offender Recidivism?Blind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts All
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 AllAre Fewer Returns to Prison in Society’s Best Interest?
Background 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?Does Anything Work in Parole and Probation?
Observation As we celebrate parole and probation week, don’t agents (and society) deserve more than a system that seems hopelessly adrift? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
View More Does Anything Work in Parole and Probation?Offender Employment and Education Programs Don’t Work
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 WorkMost Offender Rehabilitation Programs Don’t Work-A Path Forward? New Federal Report
Observations 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 ReportOffenders Have Multiple Convictions-Six for Federal Defendants
Summation Almost three-quarters (72.8%) of federal offenders sentenced in fiscal year 2016 had been convicted of a prior offense. The average number of previous…
View More Offenders Have Multiple Convictions-Six for Federal DefendantsReleased Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per Offender
Observations Offender recidivism is extremely high. It doesn’t matter if you are pro or anti sentencing reform or any manner of lessening the impact of…
View More Released Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per Offender50 Percent on Probation-56 Percent on Parole Complete Supervision
Summary Approximately 50 percent of those on state probation completed their community supervision in 2016. Approximately 56 percent of those on state parole completed their community…
View More 50 Percent on Probation-56 Percent on Parole Complete SupervisionCriminal History And A Second Chance For Prisoners
Observations As to a second chance for prisoners, about 7 in 8 had more than one prior arrest charge, and a majority had at least five.…
View More Criminal History And A Second Chance For Prisoners