Rep. Greg Jamison was flat out wrong. Last November, the Sioux Falls Republican said his colleagues in the Legislature would ...

Minnehaha County commissioners heard a presentation Tuesday on a Lutheran Social Services program aimed at reducing domestic ...

[L]egislation that provides funding for states to help prisoners re-enter communities and has been credited with lowering recidivism rates has been introduced in the Senate by Vermont Democrat Patrick ...

Kansas bill would drain funding that helps steer kids out of criminal justice system, advocates say The One Heart Project ...

Reginald Bellamy was playing poker with buddies at the old Baltimore City Detention Center when he heard the voice that ...

After years of state-backed efforts to reduce recidivism, a new report made public today by the Office of Policy and Management shows Connecticut has made steady if modest progress on how many ...

ATLANTA (AP/WCCO) -- More than 40 percent of ex-cons commit crimes within three years of their release and wind up back behind bars, despite billions in taxpayer dollars spent on prison systems that ...

OpEd: Drug Court, Veterans Court and Mental Health Court are showing how to reduce recidivism and heal our communities.

For years the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has released annual recidivism reports that detail how often inmates re-offend after they are released. But the reports ...

To the editor: Of course anti-recidivism programs in prison don’t work. Prison is a punitive environment in which inmates are constantly subjected to violence or threats of violence. That’s not an ...

Popular opinion suggests that those convicted of terrorism related offenses are very likely to re-offend. But how accurate is this belief? In response to 9/11, Congress enacted several legislative ...

South Dakota’s recidivism rate is among the highest in the U.S., rising from 42% to 50% between 2011 and 2021, according to ...