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 earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (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)
- Very few states track and publish and recidivism data for people on probation (Created: 2020)
- Most states track and publish just one measure of post-release recidivism (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)
- Formerly incarcerated people of color face the greatest educational disadvantages (Created: 2018)
- Educational exclusion raises unemployment rates of formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- It's getting harder for formerly incarcerated people to compete in an increasingly skilled labor market (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness is part of the larger problem of housing insecurity (Created: 2018)
- Housing insecurity is nearly three times more common than homelessness alone (Created: 2018)
- Gender, race, and ethnicity combine to put women of color at greater risk of homelessness (Created: 2018)
- The revolving door of prison contributes to homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness rates among formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment (Created: 2018)
