The first thing that caught my attention was the fact that within a nine year frame 83% of released prisoners will be right back in prison. This statistic says a lot about the rehabilitation going on in the prisons and jails especially. The lack of rehabilitation going on is going to always lead the incarcerated to fail when they come out. Jails can even be looked at worse when it comes to rehabilitation, because they have less time to change in there. The next statistic I found interesting was the fact that in 2005 about 18% of the prisoners released were 24 years or younger. 18% seems like a low percentage, but to me it seems high for the younger population. It’s shocking to me that within one year after being released 43.9% of the ex convicts go back to jail. It’s so easy to sit here and say that they shouldn’t be going back, but the reality is it happens so much. What this article says to me is, almost all prisoners need a better rehabilitation program. This is going to cost money to get the rehabilitation programs going, but I think it would eventually save the country money. It costs a lot to house inmates, and the fact that they just keep coming back is just more and more money being wasted. The article stated that 2,173 of the 70,878 prisoners sampled died within the 9 year follow up of being arrested. This can be because of number of reasons, I just thought this number was on the high end, especially since 70% of the inmates are younger than 40 years old. The last thing that caught my attention from the article was that eight percent of prisoners arrested during the first year after release were arrested outside the state that released them. -CRJB002
Maybe they need more rehabilitation programs inprison. Or even employment working shops where the inmates can hone in on certain trade skills. That would help then when they got out to better chances of getting a job and not hitting the streets doing illegal things. This way they wouldn’t have a chance being repeat offenders and still contribute to society. Navy002
I agree with what you are saying completely. Most jails and or prisons dont offer rehabilitation. All they care about is making money and on top of that making sure someone comes back to jail. I feel somethings are designed so people can fail. But jails and prison do offer programs to help get there diplomas and or a trade. Batman002
I agree with you when mention how basically it is just wasted money when they just keep going back and back again, what is the point of prison if we are not going to help people. Apparently it is just to make money and not actually help people. I think as a society we need to realize these issues and actually try to help others because we need more of that these days. I know there are some places that are trying to change but we need more prisons to change for the better. -wags002
This article shed a lot of light on the issue of recidivism in the current prison population. I also was pretty shocked at the fact that eighty-three percent of those incarcerated will return to the prison system within nine years. It makes you wonder if more can be done to prevent people from re-offending. I agree that the money is wasted if it is not helping to correct the behaviors that lead to incarceration. I think it will be important to focus on the rehabilitation aspect in order to prevent the recidivism rates from being so high. -zen002
I agree with what you said about the waste of money for sending these people back to jail or prison time and time again. I think it is a really good idea for jails and prisons to have rehabilitation programs and some do. I agree that this is mainly just a money thing. -ju002
Some things that I looked up was out of 30 states that 24 and younger were male which made up of 18% of the release. While half the percentage was middle age ranging from 25 to 39. While only 31% was 40 years old and older. All were arrested for variety of offenses. I can see the studying upon released of a three year to nine year study. It stated that sixty eight percent that had been arrested before committed a new crime within 6 years after release. Even after a 9 year period it stated that the percentage went up after release to almost 83 percent. Also in one of the tables listed in the article it shows that since 2005 the volume of prisoners released over the nine year period the percentage of released declined 9 years of the first arrest. During those 9 year study another table mostly male and female prisoners are almost the same as percentage of release. And as the years went the percentage on both genders was a big drop of at the end of the study. Another interesting fact in the article was a prisoner release on property offenses. It showed that minor offenses were higher than prisoners released ones with drug or violent offenses. Another table showed that almost half of those released after serving for property offense in the nine year study the percentage dropped almost by a quarter for for those released for a violent crime. In another paragraph it was in stated that prisoners released for a violent or property crime were likewise to be arrested for another violent crime. According to the mass incarceration sheet, law enforcement, prosecution, and judges proceed to penalize people too much for almost nothing than drug possession. Drug offenses still make up for almost half of a million people in the federal prison system. Navy002
Maybe they need more rehabilitation programs in prison. Or even employment working shops where the inmates can hone in on certain trade skills. That would help then when they got out to better chances of getting a job and not hitting the streets doing illegal things. This way they wouldn’t have a chance being repeat offenders and still contribute to society. Navy002
You are correct about everything you said. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. I thought the article was very interesting.
This article talks about the 2018 update on prisoner recidivism. Recidivism is when a convicted criminal go back to jail again. To measure how much criminals reoffend you first have to start when the criminal is released from prison. Secondly you have to look at the convictions, when they were arrested again, and what happens to them after getting arrested. Thirdly, someone would have to look at how many years after they were convicted from a couple of months to a couple of years. Trying to get the statistics for this sort of thing takes time to get all the information. In the article it says “Forty-four percent of prisoners released in 2005 were arrested during the first year following release. Sixteen percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during the second year after release, and 8% were arrested for the first time during the third year. Fifteen percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during years 4 through 9, including 11% arrested for the first time during years 4 through 6 and 4% arrested for the first time during years 7 through 9.” Which means something had to happen between all those years. Depending on what crimes they committed. Whether it was need to commit a crime or if it was petty crime, and or it was a serious crime. “An estimated 23% of released prisoners were responsible for half of the nearly 1,994,000 arrests that occurred during the 9-year follow-up period.” The same offenders committed crime within the same year which meant that they didn't learn from their first crime that he or she committed. Which happens majority of time or they never even learned it when they were juveniles. Batman002
This article is talking about how in 2018 there was a update on prisoner recidivism. In 2015, the ones released there would be a 4 in 9 statistic showing that those 4 would be arrested again during the first year out of prison. That is 44% which is almost half of the people being sent out which is not that great. One thing I also noticed was that the article mentioned that within nine years, 83% of the prisoners released would be rearrested. That is crazy to me, you would think that being sent to prison would be a life changing experience where one would realize not to do any crime again or at least get the help they need to not do the crime again. However from these statistics it does not seem like prison is working for many of these people arrested. There was another thing stated in the article saying that younger prisoners and males were more likely to be rearrested compared to the women and the older prisoners, which does seem right because there are a lot more male offenders than women however women offenders have been on the rise for awhile now. It also makes sense that the younger prisoners would reoffend rather than the older prisoners. The older prisoners have more than likely aged out and do not really feel like they need to do more crimes because they have gotten older and are not as able to do certain things when they are older. Overall this article is showing all the different statistics on recidivism and it is crazy how high the numbers are. This just shows that we need to change things to get those numbers lower and get prison population down as well. It will cost a lot of money but I think we need more and better rehabilitation for prisoners, the point of getting arrested and sent to prison to me is for those to learn from their mistakes and not do it again but that is not the case. I am hopeful there will be a change for the better to keep recidivism rates lower. -wags002
This was most definitely an interesting study, yet I wish we would have been given all fifty states statistics opposed to just thirty. The learning and growing process of juveniles or even young adults can be huge indicators of why they were rearrested. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. SH002
What is Recidivism? Recidivism means the criminal goes back to jail. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. I thought the article was very interesting. I thought table 1 was really interesting because it shows the characteristics of prisoners that were released in the 30 states in 2005. The different characteristics that they talk about are gender, race, age, and offenses they did, number of released prisoners. The were 401,288 prisoners that was released in the 30m states. They said 100% prisoners are released. According to Department of Justice “ About 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent offense.” If it was in 4 states that would be bad because each state would have a lot of people that are violent and did something violent. We don’t need those type of people on the streets. According to U.S Department of Justice “ 16 percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during the second year after release, and 8% were arrested for the first time during the third year. 15 percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during years 4 through 9, including 11% arrested for the first time during years 4 through 6 and 4% arrested for the first time during years 7 through 9."There could be something going on these years that happened. These criminals never learned what they did as a juvenile and as adults. They keep going the same crime over and over again. They really need to learn before they are sentenced to life in prison. Softball002
I like your perspective on the age situation. The learning and growing process of juveniles or even young adults can be huge indicators of why they were rearrested. A change in environment, including possibly getting away from family and/or "friends", is beneficial for anyone especially those dealing with the criminal justice system. -Gamma002
I found it interesting that after the first year of being released, males and females had similar rates of being rearrested. Normally, men and women have noticeably different statistics in the criminal justice system (though they are developing similarities), so I found this shocking and quite unexpected. This thought process was followed up by the fact the males and the younger population were arrested more often than the females and older population in the United States. I was also surprised that the highest percentage of arrests was for property crimes and not violent crimes. I feel that the words “crime” or “criminal” tend to be associated with the word “violence” so I will have to learn how to not automatically associate these words because it is clearly not the case. I found it curious that not all 50 states participated in the study, and I find this irritating because to have the best most accurate reading for this, or any, study we need all the states to compare. I would really like to see if more states participated in the past fives years and see if any of the figures/statistics have any dramatic changes. -Gamma002
I also found it interesting that males and females had similar arrest rates after year one. I think it is a little surprising but also makes sense in the way society is moving toward equality in all aspects. This was most definitely an interesting study, yet I wish we would have been given all fifty states statistics opposed to just thirty. -KF002
I agree with you when you said that it was very surprising to learn that male and females had similar arrest rates, normally they don't. We often learn that men commit the most violent crimes, but in this article that is not true. Younger people will definitely commit crimes more than anyone, they often make stupid mistakes everyone was young once. -JAS002
Recidivism is one of the biggest obstacles in corrections. According to the article, an estimated 68% of released prisoners were rearrested within three years, 79% within six years and 83% within 9 years. This is definitely contributing to the major overcrowding in our prison system. I think a focus on rehabilitation would help lower these numbers. Many people believe that in prison, low level offenders learn how to commit even higher crimes. This is evident when you look at the statistics on drug offenders. Seventy-seven percent of drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug related crime within in nine years. Similarly, people arrested for a property crime were more likely to be rearrested for a violent crime. The percentage of property crime offenders that were rearrested was higher than those that have committed a drug or violent offense. It seems that after incarceration, the crimes escalate. Perhaps the offenders are learning how to continue to commit crimes. It could also be that they are becoming desensitized to incarceration. There is also the possibility that many of the offenders feel hopeless when they leave from completing their sentence or are unable to find work and return to crime. I also noticed that younger offenders are more likely to be rearrested than older offenders. Forty five percent of male prisoners were arrested during the first year after release. Examining the patterns of the age of the re-offenders can help give an indication as to what can be done differently to lower the chances of them re-offending. The fact that this study covers nine years gives a really important look into the true patterns of recidivism. By examining a long period of time, you can better see the true implications. If you only examine the first years after release, it gives an unclear message that recidivism is low and that the incarceration is “working”. -zen002
Recidivism requires three things, a starting event, a failure measurement, and an observational follow-up. Over the course of nine years nearly 1,994,00 arrests were made throughout the states. Sadly, on average, prisoners once released were arrested five times over the course of nine years. Focusing on 2005 nearly one in four prisoners were released from prison due to committing violent crimes. Around 400,000 prisoners were released in 2005 and nearly ninety percent were men. I assumed the majority of releases would be the younger but around half of the releases were ages twenty-five to thirty-nine, so closer to entering middle age. The majority of the prisoners released, were arrested for; drug offenses, property offenses, violent offenses, or public order offenses. In order to understand why people are deviant and commit crimes we must measure recidivism and desistance. Many statistics were collected to understand why people were being arrested, and who was being arrested more than once over a nine-year period. After a year of studying the percentages of males and females for basically the first time were very similar. Skip to the nine year follow-up and male prisoners arrested was in the eighty percentile, and the women prisoners arrested was close behind in the seventy percentile. Over the course of nine years the percentage of different races recidivism was very close in percentage. Looking across the nine year stretch; the highest recidivism was among those; male, twenty-four or younger, or african american. Those with the lowest percentages were; female, over the age of forty, or pacific islanders. The ones most likely to be arrested were in for property offenses, usually combined with other offenses including violent or drug crimes. I think many of these younger people getting rearrested are not yet burnt out on crimes, and need to grow out of it. If we can focus on why and who is reoffending and returning to prison then we can find the solution to decrease the number of arrests, by using treatment facilities. -KF002
This article talks about the update on prisoner recidivism in 2018. Recidivism is when a criminal goes back to jail. The first fact that I found interesting is that five in fix, which is eighty three percent, state prisoners released in 2005 were arrested at least once during the nine year following their release. Only sixteen percent was not rearrested. Forty four percent of prisoners released in 2005 was arrested at least once during the first year. Thirty four percent were rearrested during the third year and twenty four percent was arrested during their ninth year. This article talks about a study they did using 401,288 state prisoners that was released in 2005. It showed that estimated 1,994,000 arrest during the nine year period, an average of five arrests per released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years four through nine. Another interesting fact is that almost half or forty seven percent of prisoners who did not have an arrest within three years of release were arrested during four through nine. Another interesting fact is that more than three quarters or seventy seven percent of released drug offenders were arrested for a non drug crime within nine years. Another interesting fact is that during each year and cumulatively in the nine year follow up period released property offenders were more likely to be arrested then released violent offenders. This article really shows how jail can alter someone's life, even afterwards. When you get out of jail you most likely have no money, job, and even house. The stress of that could easily make someone reoffend if they do not have positive coping strategies. This also goes along with the story Sheriff Asbell told us about the guy named Johnny. -ju002
This article talks about the update on prisoner recidivism in 2018. Recidivism is when a criminal goes back to jail. Sadly, on average, prisoners once released were arrested five times over the course of nine years. Focusing on 2005 nearly one in four prisoners were released from prison due to committing violent crimes. After a year of studying the percentages of males and females for basically the first time were very similar. Skip to the nine-year follow-up and male prisoners arrested was in the eighty percentiles, and the women prisoners arrested was close behind in the seventy percentiles. the highest percentage of arrests was for property crimes and not violent crimes. I feel that the words “crime” or “criminal” tend to be associated with the word “violence” so I will have to learn how to not automatically associate these words because it is clearly not the case. According to Department of Justice “About 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent offense.” If it was in 4 states that would be bad because each state would have a lot of people that are violent and did something violent. We don’t need those type of people on the streets. Overall this article is showing all the different statistics on recidivism and it is crazy how high the numbers are. SH002
The article titled 2018 Update on prisoner recidivism is a very interesting read with a lot of facts. One fact that caught my attention was that “5 in 6 (83%) state prisoners released in 2005 across 30 states were arrested at least 1 time during the 9 years following their release date. I believe that when inmates are close to their release date it is important to receive some sort of help in prison so they can be prepared to be out into the real world. The criminal content for a convict to reoffend is extremely high. I believe the reason why is because inmates are not getting the help they need in prison and when they are released. Another fact that was very important to me was that about 4 in 9 (44%) prisoners released in 2005 were arrested at least once during their first year after their release. It is very easy to reoffend if these inmates are put back into the same community they committed the crime in. There are alot of bad influences around them. It could be very hard for inmates to change. Also, about 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent crime. This fact caught me by surprise. On the characteristics of prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 chart it had some interesting numbers. Violent crimes 25.7%, Property 29.7%, Drug 31.9% and Public order 12.7%. I did not know that property and drug crimes were that close in numbers. Did you know that prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested nearly 2 million times during the 9 years following their release. The solution to recidivism seems very easy. Give inmates the help they need in and out of prison. Send these inmates to different states and give them a new life. -Jas002
This article talks about offenders reoffending once they are released from prison. The article states that 5 in 6 prisoners released were rearrested at least once in the next 9 years since they were out. That is 83% of prisoners that were recividising but 17% were not rearrested in the next 9 years. In 2005 about 4 out of 9 prisoners were rearrested in the first year. About 1 in 3 were arrested in the first 3 years and nearly 1 in 4 were arrested in their ninth year out of prison. In 2005 1 in 4 prisoners in the US were in prison for a violent crime. Among the 400,000 prisoners released in 2005 almost 9 out of 20 were male, 8% were younger than 24 years old, 50% were 25 to 39, and 30% were 40 or older. These statistics tell us a lot, they tell us that most of the prisoners released were male and around middle aged. The statistics also tell us that most of the offenders reoffend even if it isn't right when they get out of jail they will reoffend in the coming years. I wonder what we could do to help that or to change that. Most that reoffend almost have to, to survive. They steal because they are broke or they sell drugs because they cant get a job. It all comes back to being locked up. It is just a vicious cycle they are in when they are put in the system. -wb002
The first thing that caught my attention was the fact that within a nine year frame 83% of released prisoners will be right back in prison. This statistic says a lot about the rehabilitation going on in the prisons and jails especially. The lack of rehabilitation going on is going to always lead the incarcerated to fail when they come out. Jails can even be looked at worse when it comes to rehabilitation, because they have less time to change in there. The next statistic I found interesting was the fact that in 2005 about 18% of the prisoners released were 24 years or younger. 18% seems like a low percentage, but to me it seems high for the younger population. It’s shocking to me that within one year after being released 43.9% of the ex convicts go back to jail. It’s so easy to sit here and say that they shouldn’t be going back, but the reality is it happens so much. What this article says to me is, almost all prisoners need a better rehabilitation program. This is going to cost money to get the rehabilitation programs going, but I think it would eventually save the country money. It costs a lot to house inmates, and the fact that they just keep coming back is just more and more money being wasted. The article stated that 2,173 of the 70,878 prisoners sampled died within the 9 year follow up of being arrested. This can be because of number of reasons, I just thought this number was on the high end, especially since 70% of the inmates are younger than 40 years old. The last thing that caught my attention from the article was that eight percent of prisoners arrested during the first year after release were arrested outside the state that released them. -CRJB002
ReplyDeleteMaybe they need more rehabilitation programs inprison. Or even employment working shops where the inmates can hone in on certain trade skills. That would help then when they got out to better chances of getting a job and not hitting the streets doing illegal things. This way they wouldn’t have a chance being repeat offenders and still contribute to society. Navy002
DeleteI agree with what you are saying completely. Most jails and or prisons dont offer rehabilitation. All they care about is making money and on top of that making sure someone comes back to jail. I feel somethings are designed so people can fail. But jails and prison do offer programs to help get there diplomas and or a trade. Batman002
DeleteI agree with you when mention how basically it is just wasted money when they just keep going back and back again, what is the point of prison if we are not going to help people. Apparently it is just to make money and not actually help people. I think as a society we need to realize these issues and actually try to help others because we need more of that these days. I know there are some places that are trying to change but we need more prisons to change for the better. -wags002
DeleteThis article shed a lot of light on the issue of recidivism in the current prison population. I also was pretty shocked at the fact that eighty-three percent of those incarcerated will return to the prison system within nine years. It makes you wonder if more can be done to prevent people from re-offending. I agree that the money is wasted if it is not helping to correct the behaviors that lead to incarceration. I think it will be important to focus on the rehabilitation aspect in order to prevent the recidivism rates from being so high. -zen002
DeleteI agree with what you said about the waste of money for sending these people back to jail or prison time and time again. I think it is a really good idea for jails and prisons to have rehabilitation programs and some do. I agree that this is mainly just a money thing. -ju002
DeleteSome things that I looked up was out of 30 states that 24 and younger were male which made up of 18% of the release. While half the percentage was middle age ranging from 25 to 39. While only 31% was 40 years old and older. All were arrested for variety of offenses. I can see the studying upon released of a three year to nine year study. It stated that sixty eight percent that had been arrested before committed a new crime within 6 years after release. Even after a 9 year period it stated that the percentage went up after release to almost 83 percent. Also in one of the tables listed in the article it shows that since 2005 the volume of prisoners released over the nine year period the percentage of released declined 9 years of the first arrest. During those 9 year study another table mostly male and female prisoners are almost the same as percentage of release. And as the years went the percentage on both genders was a big drop of at the end of the study. Another interesting fact in the article was a prisoner release on property offenses. It showed that minor offenses were higher than prisoners released ones with drug or violent offenses. Another table showed that almost half of those released after serving for property offense in the nine year study the percentage dropped almost by a quarter for for those released for a violent crime. In another paragraph it was in stated that prisoners released for a violent or property crime were likewise to be arrested for another violent crime. According to the mass incarceration sheet, law enforcement, prosecution, and judges proceed to penalize people too much for almost nothing than drug possession. Drug offenses still make up for almost half of a million people in the federal prison system. Navy002
ReplyDeleteMaybe they need more rehabilitation programs in prison. Or even employment working shops where the inmates can hone in on certain trade skills. That would help then when they got out to better chances of getting a job and not hitting the streets doing illegal things. This way they wouldn’t have a chance being repeat offenders and still contribute to society. Navy002
DeleteYou are correct about everything you said. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. I thought the article was very interesting.
DeleteThis article talks about the 2018 update on prisoner recidivism. Recidivism is when a convicted criminal go back to jail again. To measure how much criminals reoffend you first have to start when the criminal is released from prison. Secondly you have to look at the convictions, when they were arrested again, and what happens to them after getting arrested. Thirdly, someone would have to look at how many years after they were convicted from a couple of months to a couple of years. Trying to get the statistics for this sort of thing takes time to get all the information. In the article it says “Forty-four percent of prisoners released in 2005 were arrested during the first year following release. Sixteen percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during the second year after release, and 8% were arrested for the first time during the third year. Fifteen percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during years 4 through 9, including 11% arrested for the first time during years 4 through 6 and 4% arrested for the first time during years 7 through 9.” Which means something had to happen between all those years. Depending on what crimes they committed. Whether it was need to commit a crime or if it was petty crime, and or it was a serious crime. “An estimated 23% of released prisoners were responsible for half of the nearly 1,994,000 arrests that occurred during the 9-year follow-up period.” The same offenders committed crime within the same year which meant that they didn't learn from their first crime that he or she committed. Which happens majority of time or they never even learned it when they were juveniles. Batman002
ReplyDeleteThis article is talking about how in 2018 there was a update on prisoner recidivism. In 2015, the ones released there would be a 4 in 9 statistic showing that those 4 would be arrested again during the first year out of prison. That is 44% which is almost half of the people being sent out which is not that great. One thing I also noticed was that the article mentioned that within nine years, 83% of the prisoners released would be rearrested. That is crazy to me, you would think that being sent to prison would be a life changing experience where one would realize not to do any crime again or at least get the help they need to not do the crime again. However from these statistics it does not seem like prison is working for many of these people arrested. There was another thing stated in the article saying that younger prisoners and males were more likely to be rearrested compared to the women and the older prisoners, which does seem right because there are a lot more male offenders than women however women offenders have been on the rise for awhile now. It also makes sense that the younger prisoners would reoffend rather than the older prisoners. The older prisoners have more than likely aged out and do not really feel like they need to do more crimes because they have gotten older and are not as able to do certain things when they are older. Overall this article is showing all the different statistics on recidivism and it is crazy how high the numbers are. This just shows that we need to change things to get those numbers lower and get prison population down as well. It will cost a lot of money but I think we need more and better rehabilitation for prisoners, the point of getting arrested and sent to prison to me is for those to learn from their mistakes and not do it again but that is not the case. I am hopeful there will be a change for the better to keep recidivism rates lower. -wags002
ReplyDeleteThis was most definitely an interesting study, yet I wish we would have been given all fifty states statistics opposed to just thirty. The learning and growing process of juveniles or even young adults can be huge indicators of why they were rearrested. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. SH002
DeleteWhat is Recidivism? Recidivism means the criminal goes back to jail. This could be a bad thing and could be a good thing. The reason why it could be a bad thing are the population of prisons are going to have high peak. The reason why it could be a good idea, the criminal can get more help and the prison can find a better way to help their prisoners. I thought the article was very interesting. I thought table 1 was really interesting because it shows the characteristics of prisoners that were released in the 30 states in 2005. The different characteristics that they talk about are gender, race, age, and offenses they did, number of released prisoners. The were 401,288 prisoners that was released in the 30m states. They said 100% prisoners are released. According to Department of Justice “ About 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent offense.” If it was in 4 states that would be bad because each state would have a lot of people that are violent and did something violent. We don’t need those type of people on the streets. According to U.S Department of Justice “ 16 percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during the second year after release, and 8% were arrested for the first time during the third year. 15 percent of released prisoners were arrested for the first time during years 4 through 9, including 11% arrested for the first time during years 4 through 6 and 4% arrested for the first time during years 7 through 9."There could be something going on these years that happened. These criminals never learned what they did as a juvenile and as adults. They keep going the same crime over and over again. They really need to learn before they are sentenced to life in prison. Softball002
ReplyDeleteI like your perspective on the age situation. The learning and growing process of juveniles or even young adults can be huge indicators of why they were rearrested. A change in environment, including possibly getting away from family and/or "friends", is beneficial for anyone especially those dealing with the criminal justice system. -Gamma002
DeleteI found it interesting that after the first year of being released, males and females had similar rates of being rearrested. Normally, men and women have noticeably different statistics in the criminal justice system (though they are developing similarities), so I found this shocking and quite unexpected. This thought process was followed up by the fact the males and the younger population were arrested more often than the females and older population in the United States. I was also surprised that the highest percentage of arrests was for property crimes and not violent crimes. I feel that the words “crime” or “criminal” tend to be associated with the word “violence” so I will have to learn how to not automatically associate these words because it is clearly not the case. I found it curious that not all 50 states participated in the study, and I find this irritating because to have the best most accurate reading for this, or any, study we need all the states to compare. I would really like to see if more states participated in the past fives years and see if any of the figures/statistics have any dramatic changes. -Gamma002
ReplyDeleteI also found it interesting that males and females had similar arrest rates after year one. I think it is a little surprising but also makes sense in the way society is moving toward equality in all aspects. This was most definitely an interesting study, yet I wish we would have been given all fifty states statistics opposed to just thirty.
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I agree with you when you said that it was very surprising to learn that male and females had similar arrest rates, normally they don't. We often learn that men commit the most violent crimes, but in this article that is not true. Younger people will definitely commit crimes more than anyone, they often make stupid mistakes everyone was young once. -JAS002
DeleteRecidivism is one of the biggest obstacles in corrections. According to the article, an estimated 68% of released prisoners were rearrested within three years, 79% within six years and 83% within 9 years. This is definitely contributing to the major overcrowding in our prison system. I think a focus on rehabilitation would help lower these numbers. Many people believe that in prison, low level offenders learn how to commit even higher crimes. This is evident when you look at the statistics on drug offenders. Seventy-seven percent of drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug related crime within in nine years. Similarly, people arrested for a property crime were more likely to be rearrested for a violent crime. The percentage of property crime offenders that were rearrested was higher than those that have committed a drug or violent offense. It seems that after incarceration, the crimes escalate. Perhaps the offenders are learning how to continue to commit crimes. It could also be that they are becoming desensitized to incarceration. There is also the possibility that many of the offenders feel hopeless when they leave from completing their sentence or are unable to find work and return to crime. I also noticed that younger offenders are more likely to be rearrested than older offenders. Forty five percent of male prisoners were arrested during the first year after release. Examining the patterns of the age of the re-offenders can help give an indication as to what can be done differently to lower the chances of them re-offending. The fact that this study covers nine years gives a really important look into the true patterns of recidivism. By examining a long period of time, you can better see the true implications. If you only examine the first years after release, it gives an unclear message that recidivism is low and that the incarceration is “working”. -zen002
ReplyDeleteRecidivism requires three things, a starting event, a failure measurement, and an observational follow-up. Over the course of nine years nearly 1,994,00 arrests were made throughout the states. Sadly, on average, prisoners once released were arrested five times over the course of nine years. Focusing on 2005 nearly one in four prisoners were released from prison due to committing violent crimes. Around 400,000 prisoners were released in 2005 and nearly ninety percent were men. I assumed the majority of releases would be the younger but around half of the releases were ages twenty-five to thirty-nine, so closer to entering middle age. The majority of the prisoners released, were arrested for; drug offenses, property offenses, violent offenses, or public order offenses. In order to understand why people are deviant and commit crimes we must measure recidivism and desistance. Many statistics were collected to understand why people were being arrested, and who was being arrested more than once over a nine-year period. After a year of studying the percentages of males and females for basically the first time were very similar. Skip to the nine year follow-up and male prisoners arrested was in the eighty percentile, and the women prisoners arrested was close behind in the seventy percentile. Over the course of nine years the percentage of different races recidivism was very close in percentage. Looking across the nine year stretch; the highest recidivism was among those; male, twenty-four or younger, or african american. Those with the lowest percentages were; female, over the age of forty, or pacific islanders. The ones most likely to be arrested were in for property offenses, usually combined with other offenses including violent or drug crimes. I think many of these younger people getting rearrested are not yet burnt out on crimes, and need to grow out of it. If we can focus on why and who is reoffending and returning to prison then we can find the solution to decrease the number of arrests, by using treatment facilities.
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This article talks about the update on prisoner recidivism in 2018. Recidivism is when a criminal goes back to jail. The first fact that I found interesting is that five in fix, which is eighty three percent, state prisoners released in 2005 were arrested at least once during the nine year following their release. Only sixteen percent was not rearrested. Forty four percent of prisoners released in 2005 was arrested at least once during the first year. Thirty four percent were rearrested during the third year and twenty four percent was arrested during their ninth year. This article talks about a study they did using 401,288 state prisoners that was released in 2005. It showed that estimated 1,994,000 arrest during the nine year period, an average of five arrests per released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years four through nine. Another interesting fact is that almost half or forty seven percent of prisoners who did not have an arrest within three years of release were arrested during four through nine. Another interesting fact is that more than three quarters or seventy seven percent of released drug offenders were arrested for a non drug crime within nine years. Another interesting fact is that during each year and cumulatively in the nine year follow up period released property offenders were more likely to be arrested then released violent offenders. This article really shows how jail can alter someone's life, even afterwards. When you get out of jail you most likely have no money, job, and even house. The stress of that could easily make someone reoffend if they do not have positive coping strategies. This also goes along with the story Sheriff Asbell told us about the guy named Johnny. -ju002
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about the update on prisoner recidivism in 2018. Recidivism is when a criminal goes back to jail. Sadly, on average, prisoners once released were arrested five times over the course of nine years. Focusing on 2005 nearly one in four prisoners were released from prison due to committing violent crimes. After a year of studying the percentages of males and females for basically the first time were very similar. Skip to the nine-year follow-up and male prisoners arrested was in the eighty percentiles, and the women prisoners arrested was close behind in the seventy percentiles. the highest percentage of arrests was for property crimes and not violent crimes. I feel that the words “crime” or “criminal” tend to be associated with the word “violence” so I will have to learn how to not automatically associate these words because it is clearly not the case. According to Department of Justice “About 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent offense.” If it was in 4 states that would be bad because each state would have a lot of people that are violent and did something violent. We don’t need those type of people on the streets. Overall this article is showing all the different statistics on recidivism and it is crazy how high the numbers are. SH002
ReplyDeleteThe article titled 2018 Update on prisoner recidivism is a very interesting read with a lot of facts. One fact that caught my attention was that “5 in 6 (83%) state prisoners released in 2005 across 30 states were arrested at least 1 time during the 9 years following their release date. I believe that when inmates are close to their release date it is important to receive some sort of help in prison so they can be prepared to be out into the real world. The criminal content for a convict to reoffend is extremely high. I believe the reason why is because inmates are not getting the help they need in prison and when they are released. Another fact that was very important to me was that about 4 in 9 (44%) prisoners released in 2005 were arrested at least once during their first year after their release. It is very easy to reoffend if these inmates are put back into the same community they committed the crime in. There are alot of bad influences around them. It could be very hard for inmates to change. Also, about 1 in 4 state prisoners released in the 30 states in 2005 were in prison for a violent crime. This fact caught me by surprise. On the characteristics of prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 chart it had some interesting numbers. Violent crimes 25.7%, Property 29.7%, Drug 31.9% and Public order 12.7%. I did not know that property and drug crimes were that close in numbers. Did you know that prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested nearly 2 million times during the 9 years following their release. The solution to recidivism seems very easy. Give inmates the help they need in and out of prison. Send these inmates to different states and give them a new life. -Jas002
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about offenders reoffending once they are released from prison. The article states that 5 in 6 prisoners released were rearrested at least once in the next 9 years since they were out. That is 83% of prisoners that were recividising but 17% were not rearrested in the next 9 years. In 2005 about 4 out of 9 prisoners were rearrested in the first year. About 1 in 3 were arrested in the first 3 years and nearly 1 in 4 were arrested in their ninth year out of prison. In 2005 1 in 4 prisoners in the US were in prison for a violent crime. Among the 400,000 prisoners released in 2005 almost 9 out of 20 were male, 8% were younger than 24 years old, 50% were 25 to 39, and 30% were 40 or older. These statistics tell us a lot, they tell us that most of the prisoners released were male and around middle aged. The statistics also tell us that most of the offenders reoffend even if it isn't right when they get out of jail they will reoffend in the coming years. I wonder what we could do to help that or to change that. Most that reoffend almost have to, to survive. They steal because they are broke or they sell drugs because they cant get a job. It all comes back to being locked up. It is just a vicious cycle they are in when they are put in the system. -wb002
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