Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons dropped their controversial book restriction policy regarding books for inmates.The policy would have prohibited direct delivery of books from...
Drawing–ThinkProgress.Org Parole: a conditional release of a prisoner who has served part of a sentence and who remains under the control of and in the legal...
Webster’s dictionary defines recidivism as “a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially to relapse into criminal behavior.” The United States...
For decades, many have argued that providing education to inmates was an exercise in futility. This argument was destroyed when the Harvard debating team lost to...
In the above video, a New York bakery gives a second chance to a returning citizen. If this re-entry effort was implemented throughout the United States,...
The public and our legislators are not sympathetic to inmates. The majority of Americans are reluctant to spend any money on individuals who have committed crimes....
The national recidivism rate for inmates over 65 is 4%. By comparison, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, About two-thirds (67.8%) of released prisoners were arrested...
John Dillinger, as a teenager, had a petty criminal record. Before he was thirty, Dillinger robbed a grocery store of $50.00. Dillinger’s father, after discussion with...
Inmate Walter Unbehaun was granted his wish to go home when a federal judge ordered a 31/2 year prison sentence for a 2013 bank robbery. The...
It was just last month that prisonpath.com discussed, in Inmates are Coming, that Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to offer college programs at ten New...
