Prison education programs offer a substantial return on investment by reducing recidivism and increasing employment rates among former inmates. Key policy recommendations include automatic ...

When inmates are released from state prisons, officials keep track to see how many of them come back during a three-year ...

Virginia would be positioned to save millions of dollars, based on data that prison education helps to cut recidivism rates by 48%, according to Doughtery. DOC would need more staffing and more ...

For those inmates, the current recidivism rate is 30.81% ... As an approved Prison Education Program (PEP), the college will use federal Pell Grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Education ...

WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR RECIDIVISM RATES OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE GRADUATED FROM OUR PROGRAM, WE SEE REALLY POSITIVE OUTCOMES. AND OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN’T I DON’T KNOW, YOU CAN’T OVERLOOK THE PERSONAL ...

Lawmakers adopted a bill meant to reduce Alaska’s recidivism rate, which is the highest in ... which can enable inmates to further their education while they are behind bars, and access other ...