Recidivism Rate

recidivism rate: Manitoba's recidivism rate is frustratingly high when compared with the national Canadian average; the youth reoffence rate hovers around 50 to 60 per cent and the adult rate is slightly less than 30 per cent. There is a national trend of reduced crime rates, but reducing the recidivism rate is key to reducing crime further and making communities safer. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The participants in this program were not educated, white-collar criminals with established backgrounds. Three-quarters of the most recent Texas class were arrested before the age of 18, one-third had at least one parent incarcerated during their childhood, slightly more than half have a high school education or equivalent, more than half committed violent offences, and most had been to prison two or three times. As well, entry into the program was difficult; only five per cent of the applicants are accepted. Yet the program's success was so impressive that in 2013, a partnership was created with the business school at Baylor University to offer graduates a certificate in entrepreneurship. Texas has the fourth-highest state incarceration rate in the most incarcerated country in the world. Yet perhaps due to a desperate need to improve those statistics, the state has developed a program that is seeing remarkable results in reducing crime. The John Howard Society of Manitoba has modelled its own program based on that success. Cleveland Texas Correctional Center, outside of Houston, has created an impressive program with a three-year recidivism rate that has fluctuated between five and seven per cent over the past decade. Corrections staff estimate the program has saved the state roughly $6 million yearly in reduced recidivism. Its prison entrepreneurship program PEP was designed to teach business skills to prisoners nearing release so they can start a small business or become self-employed. By comparison, the restorative-resolutions program we developed, that is now embraced by the Province of Manitoba, has a recidivism rate around 17 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.