More than half of the prisoners in 30 states released have been re-arrested within 3 years of being arrested. There are also more than half that are being re-arrested within 5 years. I feel like this says a lot about our nation, and what we really stand for is not being revealed. If we have the highest incarceration rate there should be some type of difference in the recidivism rates, and crimes are going down but we still are not pushing for change. Its all about locking people up and taking away their freedom,it seema as if those running things are abusing their authority. If we are arresting people more than any otheer country, we should know the most about rehabilitation. Two thirds of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within 3 years, while three quarters of prisoners released were arrested for a new crime within 5 years. This doesnt make any sense to me. I feel that when behind bars, regardless of the crime , the main goal should be to be building that person up. I think if this happens within those four walls when they re enter society, and return to prison it was well deserved. My only reason for this belief is that they've been given every opportunity to suceed in life which a lot o0f the times can keep some out of trouble. Another stastic that blows my mind is the fact that within 5 years of release 82.1% of property offenders, 76.9% of drug offenders, 73.6 of public order offenders,and 71.3% of violent offenders return for a new crime. Im not saying everyone can be changed, even though I believe it's possible. I just simply donn't think we are really doing enought, to evevn keep offenders from committing neew crimes. I see it no different as if someone was to feed their dogs once a week, and claim to be good owner. Whether it be counseling, education, job placement, or even mental help. A lot of the times if offenders are strong and wise enough they will eventually make provisions for a better life. I just think some may need a little push, or even just the fact that someone believes in them as a form of motivation. On an ending note I believe if released offenders are helped to gain some type of important positive staus or skill, that would help them for life, and they probably wouildnt risk it by committing any crime. McBrightyalife456
I agree with what you are saying. The recidivism rate is very high and needs to be controlled. With majority people being incarcerated and then after being released going back to jail or prison within the first few years of being released is crazy and should open the eyes of a lot of people and should make people want to change this. I agree that if we are arresting all these people and sending them to jail or prison as a country our rehabilitation rate should be pretty decent but instead money in prisons is not being used towards those kinds of things in order to help inmates. I also agree that we are not doing enough in order to grow as a country and bring the crime rates down as a whole. swaggyy456
Part 1 After reading this article and reviewing the recidivism rates, the rate needs to drop and get better because there are too many inmates that are being released just to be put back in jail. I believe this is because jails and prisons are not looking to help inmates while they are incarcerated more like they are overpopulating them and not spending money to help inmates. The B.J.S. went and gathered all the information for the recidivism rates and even explained how they went about finding them which was very informing to me and allowed me to trust the information even more because of the background knowledge. I believe that males have a higher recidivism rate than females because when a woman is incarcerated she knows she did wrong and tends to immediately regret it and I feel that is why women typically have a harder time in prison than males because mentally it messes with women more. Women typically commit crimes because they are being controlled too therefore when they realize what they have done and that they are no longer being controlled or high they typically come to their senses. But like I stated earlier looking at the statistics and realizing that jails and prisons are not properly helping inmates for their release I understand why the rate after 2005 is higher. -M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
Part 2 It was nice to read about how the B.J.S. finds out about all these percentages and explained how they went about gaining the information. It showed me the background of all these numbers and shows that they are not just being pulled out of thin air. I thought the differences between the 1994 and 2005 reports interesting because in every statistic of recidivism rates the percentages taken from 2005 were higher. Is this just because of the B.J.S.'s advancements in gaining information or is it that our prison systems are just getting worse. I kind of saw it coming when the report got to explaining the different recidivism rates between male and females and it turned out that males had much higher recidivism rates. was also surprising that the recidivism rates would go up higher as more years past like in the statistic on the front page of the report stating that 67.8 percent of released prisoners would go back to prison withing 3 years but 76.6 percent of prisoners were going back within five years. I thought that like with a bad habit the longer you go without doing crime the easier it would be to not do it but apparently it just gets worse as more time passes. This could be due to the lack of rehabilitation in most prisons so that the best released prisoners can do is just try and last as long as they can outside of prison until they inevitably go back to committing crime. -M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
Part 3 After reading and analyzing this study report about recidivism of prisoners of 30 states in 2005, I learn that 67.8 percent of the 404,638 state prisoners released were arrested within 3 years of release. Also, around 36.8 percent of those having been released were arrested within the first 6 months of release, that was more than a third of the prisoners. Added to that, within 5 years of release, around 84.1 percent of inmates who were age 24 or younger at release were arrested compared to 78.6 percent of inmates ages 25 to 69.2 percent and 69.2 percent of those age 40 and older. Based on this study, I could tell that those prisoners who had been release and got arrested had prior criminal history and likely to commit the same offense that landed them in jail or prison. 60.8 percent of released inmates with 4 or fewer arrest in their prior criminal record were less likely to be arrested within 5 years compared to 86.5 percent of released inmates who had 10 or more prior arrests. More to that, nearly 9 in 10 of released prisoners were male. The offense of 404,638 prisoners who got release are drug offense (31.8%), property offense (29.8%), violent offense (25.7%), and public order offense (12.7%). Within 5 years of release, prisoners who committed property offense more likely to be arrested and have been arrested for a new offense followed by those committed drug offense. Offenders who committed violent or public order offense were least likely to be arrested after release. 45.8 percent of non-Hispanic black and 46.3 percent of Hispanic inmates had been arrested after a year of release from prison compared to 39.7 percent of non-Hispanic white. From 6 months after release from prison to the end of the fifth year, black offenders had the higher rates of recidivism than white offenders. In all, this report study relied on combination of arrest charge, court disposition, incarceration sentence, and custody information to measure recidivism. -M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
I really enjoyed reading all three of these! there were some things in your writings that I had not thought was very important but the way you guys worded some of the facts made it make more since to me rather than just reading in out of the article. I too feel as if committing crimes is a bad habit, the longer you go without committing the crimes the easier it would be to completely stop the commitment of different crimes. Not only the percentages of crimes that were being committed but also the types of crimes being committed was very shocking to me. I thought for sure that there would be much more of a higher percentage rate for dugs than anything else. The drug rate is the highest of these particular crime percentages, but I thought it would be much higher than the 31.8 present that the article said. I also thought that the violent crimes would be up there in percentages too however I was also wrong on those numbers as well. Over all I liked the article and I really enjoyed reading the fact that you guys pulled out of the article along with your opinions. Thunder456
After just reading the first line I was shocked that 68% of the 404,638 state prisoners released in 2005 in 30 states were arrested within 3 years of release and then 77% were arrested within 5 years of release. These numbers just show that maybe we need to worry more about helping these people with rehabilitation rather than helping them all get out of jail we need to make sure they are ready for such conditions. If our prisons and jails focused more on making sure the people in them got proper treatment for their issues maybe we wouldn’t have that many people going back into jails. I also noticed further in the article it has a table of the gender and race of the prisoners released in 12 states in 1994 and 2005 and it shocked me that more males were released in 1994 and more females were released in 2005 it just shows that time can change a lot like you can also see on the chart that more white people were released in 2005 and more African Americans were released in 1994. It just goes to show that some races are committing more serious crimes then the others so they can’t be let out the same as the other races. This also came to no surprise that most of the offenses were drug and property related crimes. People back then and now are still getting put away for these sorts of petty crimes rather than given rehab to try and stop them instead of imprisoning them. CarlBaconWho456
After reading this article, I found a lot of interesting things. The amount of people that were released in 2005 went back to prison within the first three years. Just over 75% went back within the first five years. Mostly, the people who went back to jail, or prison, is due to the fact that they violated their probation or parole. The number of states that are participating in giving the information that is needed for this article has increased from fifteen in 1994 to thirty in 2005. The most serious crimes committed from 1994 to 2005 were violent, property, drug, and public order. Out of the four of these serious crimes, property criminals had the highest rate with 73.2%. The Bureau of Justice Statics reports that 1 in 10 state prisoners (10.9%), were arrested out of state within 5 years of release. Also, 3 in 4 prisoners were arrested within 5 years of release. When it comes to the sex of the inmates, males were more likely to be reincarcerated compared to a female inmate. Five years after released from prison, three-quarters of males and two-thirds of females had been sent back to prison. At the end of the first year, the male percentage had jumped 10 percentage points higher compared to the 34.4% the female inmates. With those statistics being said, the BJS have left out the rap sheets that were not commonly recorded by some states. When an inmate is picked up on a warrant it is neglected in the statistics. The statistics that are in this article has truly amazed me. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 1
In the article it states that about 68% of inmates return to prison after being released for 3 years and about 77% return after 5 years of being released. It also states that males have a higher recidivism rate than women. It also states that comparison to older people younger people have a high recidivism rate. The rates of recidivism is very high so the question is. What are they doing to try and keep these numbers down? There are many programs and other educational things that can possibly keep these rates down. One main thing that can tremendously bring down those numbers are giving inmates a higher level education. Many inmates highest level of education is a high school diploma or even some do not have that. If they have a GED they might be more encouraged to go out and be a productive member of society. Having over half the inmates get rearrested within 3 years is just disturbing. Are they as a prison and correction system doing everything that they can to stop that from happening? Are they giving the inmates the right information to get into these mental/drug programs. Are they working with inmates to let them know there are better options out there for them. And as for the kids are they giving them activities that they can join after school. Such as the Boys and Girls club or even a basketball league. If prisons and mentors incorporated this into the the rehabilitation of prisons I strongly believe we would see a decrease in the recidivism numbers. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 2
Some of those who went back into the system were those who violated their parole or probation. Either the dropped dirty in a drug test or they missed an appointment with their parole officer or they committed a new crime. Some of those who went back into the system did not have new court sentences they just had to finish their time left in prison. Also there was a lot of misinformation going on for those who went back into the system either what they did; did not get reported correctly to the NCRP. The NCRP relied on the amount of arrest charges, court dispositions, incarcerations, and custody information to be able to accurately measure the recidivism rate. Also states did not report whether or not the person arrested was employed or not. If they had this info they would be able to track the redevise rate more accurately. This study was also not a complete study. The report was subjected to errors . There for how are we to know what is actually going on behind the prison system? Is it another ploy to get more inmates because rehabilitation is not working? Does it mean that they will get more money for rehabilitation programs? How can we know that something is accurate if we don’t get the proper reporting? We just can’t, the system is designed to fail. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 3
I agree 100% with your argument because a lot of the times data is not accurately classified. They even pointed out the errors in their study. But that also doesn't mean that we are not failing our inmates, especially the ones who are being released. I don't think you really need numbers to see or realize that because it's in our community everyday. I have up close and in person see people get out of prison and try to due good things, that actually had a little something going for them before they even went to prison. Then when they get out they can't find a decent job, and want to and sometimes do resort back to the streets or committing crimes to survive. Whats so sad is that this is actually surviving to some people. It's almost as if we releasing them to say okay see you later, until you eventually get into trouble again.McBrightyalife456
More than half of the prisoners in 30 states released have been re-arrested within 3 years of being arrested. There are also more than half that are being re-arrested within 5 years. I feel like this says a lot about our nation, and what we really stand for is not being revealed. If we have the highest incarceration rate there should be some type of difference in the recidivism rates, and crimes are going down but we still are not pushing for change. Its all about locking people up and taking away their freedom,it seema as if those running things are abusing their authority. If we are arresting people more than any otheer country, we should know the most about rehabilitation. Two thirds of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within 3 years, while three quarters of prisoners released were arrested for a new crime within 5 years. This doesnt make any sense to me. I feel that when behind bars, regardless of the crime , the main goal should be to be building that person up. I think if this happens within those four walls when they re enter society, and return to prison it was well deserved. My only reason for this belief is that they've been given every opportunity to suceed in life which a lot o0f the times can keep some out of trouble. Another stastic that blows my mind is the fact that within 5 years of release 82.1% of property offenders, 76.9% of drug offenders, 73.6 of public order offenders,and 71.3% of violent offenders return for a new crime. Im not saying everyone can be changed, even though I believe it's possible. I just simply donn't think we are really doing enought, to evevn keep offenders from committing neew crimes. I see it no different as if someone was to feed their dogs once a week, and claim to be good owner. Whether it be counseling, education, job placement, or even mental help. A lot of the times if offenders are strong and wise enough they will eventually make provisions for a better life. I just think some may need a little push, or even just the fact that someone believes in them as a form of motivation. On an ending note I believe if released offenders are helped to gain some type of important positive staus or skill, that would help them for life, and they probably wouildnt risk it by committing any crime. McBrightyalife456
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. The recidivism rate is very high and needs to be controlled. With majority people being incarcerated and then after being released going back to jail or prison within the first few years of being released is crazy and should open the eyes of a lot of people and should make people want to change this. I agree that if we are arresting all these people and sending them to jail or prison as a country our rehabilitation rate should be pretty decent but instead money in prisons is not being used towards those kinds of things in order to help inmates. I also agree that we are not doing enough in order to grow as a country and bring the crime rates down as a whole. swaggyy456
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading this article and reviewing the recidivism rates, the rate needs to drop and get better because there are too many inmates that are being released just to be put back in jail. I believe this is because jails and prisons are not looking to help inmates while they are incarcerated more like they are overpopulating them and not spending money to help inmates. The B.J.S. went and gathered all the information for the recidivism rates and even explained how they went about finding them which was very informing to me and allowed me to trust the information even more because of the background knowledge. I believe that males have a higher recidivism rate than females because when a woman is incarcerated she knows she did wrong and tends to immediately regret it and I feel that is why women typically have a harder time in prison than males because mentally it messes with women more. Women typically commit crimes because they are being controlled too therefore when they realize what they have done and that they are no longer being controlled or high they typically come to their senses. But like I stated earlier looking at the statistics and realizing that jails and prisons are not properly helping inmates for their release I understand why the rate after 2005 is higher. -M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
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ReplyDeleteIt was nice to read about how the B.J.S. finds out about all these percentages and explained how they went about gaining the information. It showed me the background of all these numbers and shows that they are not just being pulled out of thin air. I thought the differences between the 1994 and 2005 reports interesting because in every statistic of recidivism rates the percentages taken from 2005 were higher. Is this just because of the B.J.S.'s advancements in gaining information or is it that our prison systems are just getting worse. I kind of saw it coming when the report got to explaining the different recidivism rates between male and females and it turned out that males had much higher recidivism rates. was also surprising that the recidivism rates would go up higher as more years past like in the statistic on the front page of the report stating that 67.8 percent of released prisoners would go back to prison withing 3 years but 76.6 percent of prisoners were going back within five years. I thought that like with a bad habit the longer you go without doing crime the easier it would be to not do it but apparently it just gets worse as more time passes. This could be due to the lack of rehabilitation in most prisons so that the best released prisoners can do is just try and last as long as they can outside of prison until they inevitably go back to committing crime.
-M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading and analyzing this study report about recidivism of prisoners of 30 states in 2005, I learn that 67.8 percent of the 404,638 state prisoners released were arrested within 3 years of release. Also, around 36.8 percent of those having been released were arrested within the first 6 months of release, that was more than a third of the prisoners. Added to that, within 5 years of release, around 84.1 percent of inmates who were age 24 or younger at release were arrested compared to 78.6 percent of inmates ages 25 to 69.2 percent and 69.2 percent of those age 40 and older. Based on this study, I could tell that those prisoners who had been release and got arrested had prior criminal history and likely to commit the same offense that landed them in jail or prison. 60.8 percent of released inmates with 4 or fewer arrest in their prior criminal record were less likely to be arrested within 5 years compared to 86.5 percent of released inmates who had 10 or more prior arrests. More to that, nearly 9 in 10 of released prisoners were male. The offense of 404,638 prisoners who got release are drug offense (31.8%), property offense (29.8%), violent offense (25.7%), and public order offense (12.7%). Within 5 years of release, prisoners who committed property offense more likely to be arrested and have been arrested for a new offense followed by those committed drug offense. Offenders who committed violent or public order offense were least likely to be arrested after release. 45.8 percent of non-Hispanic black and 46.3 percent of Hispanic inmates had been arrested after a year of release from prison compared to 39.7 percent of non-Hispanic white. From 6 months after release from prison to the end of the fifth year, black offenders had the higher rates of recidivism than white offenders. In all, this report study relied on combination of arrest charge, court disposition, incarceration sentence, and custody information to measure recidivism. -M.Scott456, swaggyy456, CoffeeAddict456
I really enjoyed reading all three of these! there were some things in your writings that I had not thought was very important but the way you guys worded some of the facts made it make more since to me rather than just reading in out of the article. I too feel as if committing crimes is a bad habit, the longer you go without committing the crimes the easier it would be to completely stop the commitment of different crimes. Not only the percentages of crimes that were being committed but also the types of crimes being committed was very shocking to me. I thought for sure that there would be much more of a higher percentage rate for dugs than anything else. The drug rate is the highest of these particular crime percentages, but I thought it would be much higher than the 31.8 present that the article said. I also thought that the violent crimes would be up there in percentages too however I was also wrong on those numbers as well. Over all I liked the article and I really enjoyed reading the fact that you guys pulled out of the article along with your opinions. Thunder456
DeleteAfter just reading the first line I was shocked that 68% of the 404,638 state prisoners released in 2005 in 30 states were arrested within 3 years of release and then 77% were arrested within 5 years of release. These numbers just show that maybe we need to worry more about helping these people with rehabilitation rather than helping them all get out of jail we need to make sure they are ready for such conditions. If our prisons and jails focused more on making sure the people in them got proper treatment for their issues maybe we wouldn’t have that many people going back into jails. I also noticed further in the article it has a table of the gender and race of the prisoners released in 12 states in 1994 and 2005 and it shocked me that more males were released in 1994 and more females were released in 2005 it just shows that time can change a lot like you can also see on the chart that more white people were released in 2005 and more African Americans were released in 1994. It just goes to show that some races are committing more serious crimes then the others so they can’t be let out the same as the other races. This also came to no surprise that most of the offenses were drug and property related crimes. People back then and now are still getting put away for these sorts of petty crimes rather than given rehab to try and stop them instead of imprisoning them.
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After reading this article, I found a lot of interesting things. The amount of people that were released in 2005 went back to prison within the first three years. Just over 75% went back within the first five years. Mostly, the people who went back to jail, or prison, is due to the fact that they violated their probation or parole. The number of states that are participating in giving the information that is needed for this article has increased from fifteen in 1994 to thirty in 2005. The most serious crimes committed from 1994 to 2005 were violent, property, drug, and public order. Out of the four of these serious crimes, property criminals had the highest rate with 73.2%. The Bureau of Justice Statics reports that 1 in 10 state prisoners (10.9%), were arrested out of state within 5 years of release. Also, 3 in 4 prisoners were arrested within 5 years of release. When it comes to the sex of the inmates, males were more likely to be reincarcerated compared to a female inmate. Five years after released from prison, three-quarters of males and two-thirds of females had been sent back to prison. At the end of the first year, the male percentage had jumped 10 percentage points higher compared to the 34.4% the female inmates. With those statistics being said, the BJS have left out the rap sheets that were not commonly recorded by some states. When an inmate is picked up on a warrant it is neglected in the statistics. The statistics that are in this article has truly amazed me. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 1
ReplyDeleteIn the article it states that about 68% of inmates return to prison after being released for 3 years and about 77% return after 5 years of being released. It also states that males have a higher recidivism rate than women. It also states that comparison to older people younger people have a high recidivism rate. The rates of recidivism is very high so the question is. What are they doing to try and keep these numbers down? There are many programs and other educational things that can possibly keep these rates down. One main thing that can tremendously bring down those numbers are giving inmates a higher level education. Many inmates highest level of education is a high school diploma or even some do not have that. If they have a GED they might be more encouraged to go out and be a productive member of society. Having over half the inmates get rearrested within 3 years is just disturbing. Are they as a prison and correction system doing everything that they can to stop that from happening? Are they giving the inmates the right information to get into these mental/drug programs. Are they working with inmates to let them know there are better options out there for them. And as for the kids are they giving them activities that they can join after school. Such as the Boys and Girls club or even a basketball league. If prisons and mentors incorporated this into the the rehabilitation of prisons I strongly believe we would see a decrease in the recidivism numbers. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 2
ReplyDeleteSome of those who went back into the system were those who violated their parole or probation. Either the dropped dirty in a drug test or they missed an appointment with their parole officer or they committed a new crime. Some of those who went back into the system did not have new court sentences they just had to finish their time left in prison. Also there was a lot of misinformation going on for those who went back into the system either what they did; did not get reported correctly to the NCRP. The NCRP relied on the amount of arrest charges, court dispositions, incarcerations, and custody information to be able to accurately measure the recidivism rate. Also states did not report whether or not the person arrested was employed or not. If they had this info they would be able to track the redevise rate more accurately. This study was also not a complete study. The report was subjected to errors . There for how are we to know what is actually going on behind the prison system? Is it another ploy to get more inmates because rehabilitation is not working? Does it mean that they will get more money for rehabilitation programs? How can we know that something is accurate if we don’t get the proper reporting? We just can’t, the system is designed to fail. Thunder456 ~myhearseisnotafuneralcar456~ krystal456 part 3
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% with your argument because a lot of the times data is not accurately classified. They even pointed out the errors in their study. But that also doesn't mean that we are not failing our inmates, especially the ones who are being released. I don't think you really need numbers to see or realize that because it's in our community everyday. I have up close and in person see people get out of prison and try to due good things, that actually had a little something going for them before they even went to prison. Then when they get out they can't find a decent job, and want to and sometimes do resort back to the streets or committing crimes to survive. Whats so sad is that this is actually surviving to some people. It's almost as if we releasing them to say okay see you later, until you eventually get into trouble again.McBrightyalife456
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