Arrested, Released, Rearrested: What’s Wrong With This Cycle?

Arrested, Released, Rearrested: What’s Wrong With This Cycle?
From North Dakota: Department of Corrections plans to alter its parole policies after a 75-year-old woman is brutally killed by a former inmate with a history of severe mental illness.

From Florida: At least 29% of defendants acquitted by reason of insanity in Palm Beach County in the last 20 years have been rearrested. Some were re-arrested in as little as a week; others went on to kill.

From California: A comparison of three-year recidivism rates found that 74-77% of inmates who were identified as needing . . .