SINGAPORE: The drug reoffending rate declined after three straight years of increases, according to the Singapore Prison Service's (SPS) latest annual statistics on Monday (Feb 9). The two-year ...

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

Florida is often described as a beacon for religious liberty, grounded in a simple constitutional truth: Government may neither establish religion nor prohibit its free exercise. That principle ...

Across the country, governors and legislators continue to search for ways to reduce recidivism, control correctional costs and improve public safety. Yet despite decades of reform efforts, state ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — When it comes to rehabilitating prisoners and reducing recidivism among inmates, South Dakota is looking at successful programs in other states. Burl Cain came from ...

INDIANA — Discussions about how to reduce crime are constantly happening in communities across the state of Indiana. One nonprofit that works in women’s correctional facilities in Indianapolis, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — It was all about recidivism Tuesday at a meeting of the state’s Reentry Task Force. Recidivism is the likelihood that someone formerly incarcerated will commit another ...

An important way to tell whether a corrections system is working is to track how many people end up back behind bars after serving time. For years now, Illinois has left the public in the dark about ...

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 ...

(WGN) — The Illinois Department of Corrections doesn’t know how many recently released prisoners have gone on to commit new crimes, WGN Investigates has learned. Tracking recidivism rates are a key ...