6.6.3: Recidivism
If a goal of prisons is to teach their clients to stay away from crime, they are colossal failures.
We can measure their failure by the recidivism rate—the percentage of released prisoners who are rearrested.
Within just three years of their release, two out of three (68 percent) are rearrested, and half are back in prison (Durose et al. 2014).
Looking at Figures 6.3 and 6.4, it is safe to conclude that prisons fail to teach people that crime doesn’t pay.
Figure 6.3 How Fast They Return: Recidivism of U.S. Prisoners
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