Recidivism In Prisons

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Recidivism is the tendency to relapse into criminal behavior no matter if the inmate committed the same or different crime. According by the federal government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, within five years of being released, 76.6% prisoners were rearrested. Released convicts face many struggles that are difficult to overcome due to the obstacles that inmates encounter to become active members of society. By extension, the released offenders tend to fall back into the criminal behavior because of the lack of involvement in society as they see no purpose to be part of a normal life and become pessimistic and criminals. Since released prisoners are constantly discriminated from opportunities the recidivism rate goes higher. Another cause of …show more content…

Forbidding the prisoners from housing opportunities, voting rights, and job acceptance creates worry and trouble for the prisoners to focus on improving and be able to strive for a better future. Denying access to changed individuals fails the work the prisons have proposed to secure society. Even though a minority of prisons grant educations and programs for prisoners, many do not come effective as prisoners are not given opportunities. Furthermore, more prisons should provide an education for inmates as a few of them enter illiterate. Allowing education to be in the prison system gives hope to the inmates to surpass and have a better job that could benefit them and impede for any financial issues to be places, moreover, giving them job opportunities like any other person who has gone through education and has a skilled job. Prisons should also focus more on the rehabilitation program; give this program to those with mental issues. For example, those who commit a crime due to behavioral issues or those who are drug abusers are in need of psychological help. Giving prisoners the help they need makes the system work more efficiently and realize what the main problem of the prisoner is. If prisoners are released from prison without any skill and do not have adequate mental help support from rehabilitation, the prison population will keep increasing. Many prisoners do not benefit from programs that are being offered in the prison due to it being

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