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| Leaving Prison Is No Easy Task |
| By tulsaworld.com |
| Published: 03/07/2011 |
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Most women who leave prison in Oklahoma are given $50 and a bus ticket. Statistics show there's a good chance most won't be going back to prison any time soon, if ever. Just 14.4 percent of the women released from prison in 2007 returned within three years, according to state Department of Corrections statistics. To break it down another way: Of the 1,271 female offenders who were released from DOC custody in fiscal 2010, only 183 of them will be back behind bars if current recidivism rates prove true. Re-arrest rates of former inmates as tracked by another state agency show higher encounters with law enforcement after release. About 54 percent of inmates released directly into the community after serving their sentences are re-arrested, according to a 2008 report from the state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Read More. |
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