Highlights If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform? “There remains evidence that the…
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Tag: recidivism
Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release
Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…
View More Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of ReleaseLong Prison Sentences Reduce Crime Per Federal Study
Highlights Released offenders committed well over two million new crimes per the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The odds of recidivism were approximately 29 percent lower…
View More Long Prison Sentences Reduce Crime Per Federal StudyThe Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation Supervision
Highlights There is little indicating that “evidence-based” programs work or that revocations are mostly for technical violations, or that the great bulk of our resources…
View More The Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation SupervisionAre Historic Declines In Offender Accountability-Correctional Numbers Connected To Rising Violence?
Highlights 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?The Department Of Justice’s Redefinition Of Criminality
Highlights Progressives within the US Department of Justice and beyond believe that violent offenders can safely be released from prison or deferred (i.e., put on…
View More The Department Of Justice’s Redefinition Of CriminalityBlacks And Hispanics Say Crime Is A Major Problem-Will Releasing More Violent Offenders Help?
Highlights African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans plus others are very concerned about high rates of violence. There is a national movement to release half…
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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 Incarcerations40% 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 ViolenceFirearm Offenders Have Highest Rate of New Crimes
Highlights Firearm offenders are arrested at the highest levels after release. Firearm use during crimes of violence is increasing. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired…
View More Firearm Offenders Have Highest Rate of New CrimesFederal 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…
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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 CrimeDid 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?Biden’s Promise To Cut The Prison Population In Half Means More Violent Crime
Highlights Mr. Biden stated that he wants to release half of all prison inmates or reduce the US correctional population substantially through other means. Fifty-eight…
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