Lawmakers and correctional leaders across the US are advancing reforms to reduce recidivism and improve prison conditions, with efforts including improving health and staff resources, increasing ...

Last year, lawmakers coalesced around the need to improve rehabilitation programming and reduce recidivism rates as part of a broader investment in South Dakota’s prison system. Those ...

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 ...

Last year, lawmakers coalesced around the need to improve rehabilitation programming and reduce recidivism rates as part of a ...

A new report from the Iowa Department of Corrections shows a decline in the number of inmates returning to prison. The recidivism rate, which looks at the number of individuals returning to prison ...

Changes to Colorado’s crime policies led to a significant decrease in recidivism in the state’s prisons, but lowering penalties for certain offenses also increased the number of violent crimes, ...

Cocoa High junior Armani Cobb started Hired After Bars as a freshman with the goal of reducing recidivism rates for those who've been incarcerated.

People involved with the criminal justice system can have trouble getting a state ID. This can make finding work and housing nearly impossible — sometimes putting them back in the same situations that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Kentucky’s recidivism rate has declined for the second year in ...

OWING to the more than $28 billion in government investments and the expansion of access to vocational training and formal ...

Changes to Colorado’s crime policies led to a significant decrease in recidivism in the state’s prisons, but lowering penalties for certain offenses also increased the number of violent crimes, ...