Crime rates are increasing across the United States. If history is any indication, many policymakers and Americans will look to our prisons and jails in the next few years to stop the crime rise. But ...

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We know for a fact—as credible a fact as we get from the criminal justice system—that more than eight out of 10 prisoners in the United States are rearrested after release. These data suggest some ...

Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of reoffending after returning to the community is also much lower. A new meta-analysis based on data for 4,208 women shows a recidivism ...

When the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced in the United States Congress last year, Republican and Democratic senators backed the ambitious bill. Experts complimented its ...

Criminal recidivism is when a released criminal goes back to crime. From charging crimes through probation, the criminal justice system is constantly looking for ways to better predict which criminals ...

Recidivism is a complex, somewhat foreign idea to most of us. This is probably not surprising. How many of us ever get close enough to prison or jail once, let alone enough times to fit the ...

Adam Brulotte spent four months in solitary confinement for starting a riot on his cell block. He struggled to find a sense of normalcy after he was released and was arrested again. As a teenager, ...

We started with a seemingly simple question: Why do so many inmates in the United States end up returning to prison after they are released? In search of answers, our Re-entry Project team — ...

Cynthia Rudin receives funding from the National Science Foundation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Philips, Siemens, Wistron, and the US Army. In the US, a minority of individuals commit the majority of ...