Recidivism & reentry
What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Formerly incarcerated people typically earn well below the income requirements for public housing assistance (Created: 2023)
- Changes in county-level arrest rates following statewide Medicaid expansion (Created: 2022)
- Contrary to myth, people incarcerated for violent offenses and released are least likely to be arrested again (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Solitary confinement increases the risk of premature death after release (Created: 2020)
- Increased risk of death after release from prison for people who experienced solitary confinement compared to those who did not (Created: 2020)
- "Halfway House" can refer to facilities that differ in function, purpose, and level of carcerality (Created: 2020)
- Most states track and publish just one measure of post-release recidivism (Created: 2020)
- Very few states track and publish and recidivism data for people on probation (Created: 2020)
- 81,000 women are released from state prisons each year (Created: 2019)
- Nine-year recidivism rates by offense category (Created: 2019)
- Re-arrest rates are lowest among people convicted of violent offenses (Created: 2019)
- Recently incarcerated people are over 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose (Created: 2018)
- It's getting harder for formerly incarcerated people to compete in an increasingly skilled labor market (Created: 2018)
- Educational exclusion raises unemployment rates of formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- Formerly incarcerated people of color face the greatest educational disadvantages (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness rates among formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- The revolving door of prison contributes to homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Gender, race, and ethnicity combine to put women of color at greater risk of homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Housing insecurity is nearly three times more common than homelessness alone (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness is part of the larger problem of housing insecurity (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
Events
- June 7, 2024:
Research Director Wendy Sawyer will take part in a panel discussion during the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. The panel, Incarceration as a public health threat, will focus on the ways mass incarceration harms the health of not only incarcerated people but their communities as well.
Communication Director Mike Wessler will also be in attendance for journalists who want to connect.
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