Crime rates are increasing across the United States. If history is any indication, many policymakers and Americans will look to our prisons and jails in the next few years to stop the crime rise. But ...

Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of reoffending after returning to the community is also much lower. A new meta-analysis based on data for 4,208 women shows a recidivism ...

WASHINGTON — Recidivism is an inadequate measurement of success after release from prison, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report recommends ...

When the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced in the United States Congress last year, Republican and Democratic senators backed the ambitious bill. Experts complimented its ...

We know for a fact—as credible a fact as we get from the criminal justice system—that more than eight out of 10 prisoners in the United States are rearrested after release. These data suggest some ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections has one of the lowest rates in the country of inmates returning to prison after three years of release. [email protected] COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina ...

Criminal recidivism is when a released criminal goes back to crime. From charging crimes through probation, the criminal justice system is constantly looking for ways to better predict which criminals ...

Cynthia Rudin receives funding from the National Science Foundation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Philips, Siemens, Wistron, and the US Army. In the US, a minority of individuals commit the majority of ...

Why do so many people return to crime after serving their sentence—even in Norway, with one of the world's most humane prison systems? That is the question Olea Linnea Andersson recently explored in ...

The recidivism rate last year of 22.1 per cent was the lowest since 1992, said the Singapore Prison Service The number of inmates undergoing community corrections was also at a record high of 3,426, a ...