Across the country, governors and legislators continue to search for ways to reduce recidivism, control correctional costs and improve public safety. Yet despite decades of reform efforts, state ...

Changes to Colorado’s crime policies led to a significant decrease in recidivism in the state’s prisons, but lowering penalties for certain offenses also increased the number of violent crimes, ...

Jacob Rocha spends his days working inside a warehouse surrounded by heavy machinery and wood, tucked in the Rocky Mountains. “Learned the machines, worked my way up, everything just kind of fell in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Rep. Brian Mulder, R-Sioux Falls; Rep. Erin Healy, D-Sioux Falls; Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen; and Rep. Erik Muckey, ...

Rep. Greg Jamison was flat out wrong. Last November, the Sioux Falls Republican said his colleagues in the Legislature would ...

South Dakota’s recidivism rate is among the highest in the U.S., rising from 42% to 50% between 2011 and 2021, according to ...

Minnehaha County commissioners heard a presentation Tuesday on a Lutheran Social Services program aimed at reducing domestic ...

Reginald Bellamy was playing poker with buddies at the old Baltimore City Detention Center when he heard the voice that changed his life.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Kentucky’s recidivism rate has declined for the second year in a row, with nearly 70% of those who were released from state custody ...

Changes to Colorado’s crime policies led to a significant decrease in recidivism in the state’s prisons, but lowering penalties for certain offenses also increased the number of violent crimes, ...

Last year, lawmakers coalesced around the need to improve rehabilitation programming and reduce recidivism rates as part of a broader investment in South Dakota’s prison system. Those two issues were ...