Sentence examples for High recidivism from inspiring English sources

High recidivism?

High recidivism rates mean more people behind bars, and CCA depends on more and more incarceration to make its billions.

High recidivism rates clearly show that politics places a higher priority on support from the Machiavellian characters behind the prison industrial complex than they place on making society safer.

"We're not talking about a massive number of people," Duffy said about the high recidivism rates.

The government cites statistical studies showing high recidivism rates for released aliens.

The state juvenile system has long been known for excessive violence, inadequate psychiatric services and high recidivism.

Those that have higher recidivism rates will receive warnings, and they can lose their contracts altogether if the problem persists.

In particular, released property offenders like Ewing had higher recidivism rates than those released after committing violent, drug, or public-order offenses.

The mass imprisonment philosophy that has packed prisons and sent corrections costs through the roof around the country has hit especially hard in California, which has the largest prison population, the highest recidivism rate and a prison budget raging out of control.

A 2006 study of prison safety and abuse led by a former federal court of appeals judge, John Gibbons, and a former attorney general, the late Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, raised concerns about higher recidivism rates when prisoners are released directly from solitary to the community.

One study found that Washington state prisoners who were confined in solitary had a 20 to 25 percent higher recidivism rate than those in less-restrictive housing, and that those who spent time in solitary directly before reentering society were more likely to commit violent crimes.