Highlights Parole and probation agents are supervising and police officers are encountering an offender population containing more felonies and histories of violence. Most on probation…
View More Per DOJ-Increasing Percentage On Parole and Probation Are Violent Or FelonsTag: offender reentry
Why Are Prison Numbers Falling?
Highlights Why are prison numbers falling? Are reductions due to criminal justice reform or dramatically reduced crime, arrests, and citizen contacts? An estimated 1,465,200 prisoners…
View More Why Are Prison Numbers Falling?Is Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?
Highlights The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that probation is a harsh, overzealous trap. But felony cases are flooding the probation system. Recidivism rates are high. More…
View More Is Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?New Crimes, Not Technical Violations Driving Prison Intakes
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, it’s new crimes and not technical violations that are driving new intakes into prison for released prisoners. Per…
View More New Crimes, Not Technical Violations Driving Prison IntakesSex Offenders Much More Likely To Be Arrested For Sex Crimes
Observations An overview of sex offender recidivism plus new arrests and convictions for all offenders released from prison. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…
View More Sex Offenders Much More Likely To Be Arrested For Sex CrimesBlind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts All
Highlights Offender recidivism after prison is horrendous. Programs have little to no effect. We need a research initiative similar to cancer. It should be a…
View More Blind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts AllCriminal History And A Second Chance For Prisoners
Observations As to a second chance for prisoners, about 7 in 8 had more than one prior arrest charge, and a majority had at least five.…
View More Criminal History And A Second Chance For PrisonersChild Abuse, Trauma, Crime and Oprah
US Capitol Observations The overwhelming number of offenders continue their criminal activity and the programs that try to assist them often fail or produce very…
View More Child Abuse, Trauma, Crime and OprahThe Dubious Track Record of Offender Rehabilitation
Observations Is an honest discussion about offender rehabilitation programs possible? The collective data indicate that programs for offenders either don’t work, or make things worse,…
View More The Dubious Track Record of Offender RehabilitationPrison Population Declines Need Explanation
Observations Prison populations fell considerably. Why? What are the impacts for crime and criminal justice policy? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking…
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