The Love Doctrine: Reducing Recidivism in America
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2022-11-21
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Recidivism is an ongoing crisis in the U.S that only exacerbates the overcrowding issue faced by many correctional facilities. People who suffer from mental illness, addiction or marginalization are the most likely to be incarcerated. Offenders suffering from mental illness, addiction, or marginalization are also the most likely to reoffend. Offenders are released into society only to find themselves stuck in a cycle that leads them back to prison. As of 2021 76.6% of offenders in the U.S will reoffend within five years of their release into society (Benecchi). I will take a closer look at why over 70% of offenders in America are placed back in a system that failed to rehabilitate them the first time. I want to investigate the reentry programs, educational reforms, and second chance programs offered to offenders in the U.S. Focusing on ways to relay the importance of an offender’s successful reentry to families, employers, and taxpayers, I wish to show how essential it is that inmates are receiving proper rehabilitative care. I will advocate policy changes for the availability of transferable education, health care, support groups, addiction counseling, and job connections to inmates.
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Recidivism, United States, Inmate reentry, Rehabilitation, 2022 Sophomore Research Conference