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Decreasing Recidivism

The Courage to Change: How Prosecutors Can Lead on Public Safety

George Gascón | Posted 05.19.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Criminal Justice, Recidivism, Criminal Justice System, California Prison Realignment, Decreasing-Recidivism, Sentencing Reform, Los Angeles News
George Gascón

From the Capitol to the courtrooms, prosecutors can chart a new path on public safety in California by championing at both local and state levels one of the biggest ways we can transform our justice system in this generation--sentencing reform.

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Keeping People Out of Prison: Transitional Jobs as a Reentry Strategy

The National Transitional Jobs Network | Posted 04.06.2013 | Impact
Read More: Transitional-Jobs, Fund-Transitional-Jobs, Unemployment, Impact News, Underemployment, Criminal Justice System, Jobraising, Jobraising Challenge, Poverty, Decreasing-Recidivism, Opportunity-Working, Recidivism Rates US, Video, Impact News
The National Transitional Jobs Network

2012-11-13-jrlogo300x60.gifThe idea that by serving time one has paid his debt to society is ingrained in our social narrative, but it is not accurate. Once caught up in the tides of the criminal justice system, it is very difficult to escape.

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Yoga Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Rob Schware | Posted 02.11.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Education Reform, Public Education Reform, School Violence, Prison, Niroga-Institute, Give Back Yoga Foundation, Juvenile Justice, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Juvenile Delinquency, Yoga, Decreasing Recidivism, Recidivism, Juvenile Justice System, Healthy Living News
Rob Schware

Today, Niroga conducts over 100 yoga classes a week in 40 sites throughout the Bay Area, serving over 5,000 children, youth, and adults annually, in mainstream and alternative schools, juvenile halls and jails, rehab centers, and cancer hospitals.

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Seeking Justice and Real Crime Prevention

David Chura | Posted 09.30.2012 | Crime
Read More: Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention, Decreasing-Recidivism, Juvenile Justice, Crime News
David Chura

Study after study has shown that the harsh treatment of young people locked up in our nation's jails has not only failed to reduce recidivism but has also created angrier, more bitter, more violent juvenile offenders.

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Toward an Industry of Peace

Elena Quintana | Posted 11.12.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, Peace, Recidivism, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Workers, Department of Corrections, Correctional Facility, Decreasing-Recidivism, Chicago News
Elena Quintana

When I was growing up I learned that, although not perfect, the United States had the "best justice system in the world." That bill of goods can not even be faintly passed off with a straight face to today's schoolchildren.

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Reducing Recidivism: The Challenge of Successful Prisoner Re-Entry

Paul Heroux | Posted 10.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Prison Reform, Second Chance, Incarceration, Recidivism, Crime, Second Chance Act, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Inmates, Prison Inmates, Criminal Justice Reform, Expungement, Prison, Crime Prevention, Prisons, Decreasing-Recidivism, Criminal Records, Politics News
Paul Heroux

Programs won't ever reduce recidivism to zero, but if we can reduce it and improve the lives of offenders and potential victims, we must.

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Reducing Prison Overcrowding, Improving Justice and Preventing Crime

Paul Heroux | Posted 10.16.2011 | Crime
Read More: Criminal Justice System, Recidivism, Crime, Prison, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Crime Prevention, Prison Overcrowding, Decreasing Recidivism, Crime News
Paul Heroux

Prison is necessary. But there are many forms of punishment -- prison isn't our only option. Just as there are many forms of medicine to address illness, there also should be many forms of intervention to address the many forms criminal behavior.

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Why We Can't Incarcerate Our Way Out of Crisis

Wes Moore | Posted 10.04.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Prison Reform, Youth Prisons, US Prison System, Recidivism, Youth Prison Reform, Prison System, Obama Recidivism, Decreasing-Recidivism, Black Voices News
Wes Moore

Innovative programs such as the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) have long proven that departing from the large, prison-like correctional institutions in favor of smaller, regionally dispersed facilities is quantifiably and qualitatively more effective.

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Open Letter to Otisville: Was That a Prison or a College?

Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Manyell Akinfe, Otisville, Ryan Mack, The Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment, Recidivism, Decreasing-Recidivism, Impact News
Ryan Mack

I would like to commend Federal Correction Institution Otisville in Otisville, N.Y. for the tremendous work they are doing educating their population on ways to advance the economic progress of our society.

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The Optimum October Fight Against Recidivism [VIDEO]

Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Decreasing Recidivism, The Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment, Causes, Incarceration, Recidivism, Incarceration Rates, Ryan-Mack, Impact News
Ryan Mack

Of the 2.7 million people in our prison systems across America, 63 percent will return within three years. That's why my nonprofit has dedicated October to the fight against recidivism.

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Finding the Path Back on Track

Kamala D. Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Law Enforcement, Rehabilitation, Back on Track, Recidivism, Decreasing-Recidivism, Politics News
Kamala D. Harris

Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that measure, our current approach to criminal justice may need a shrink -- and a new way of doing business.

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