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| Too many inmates return to state women’s prison |
| By mtstandard.com |
| Published: 07/15/2014 |
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Montana’s only women’s prison is out of space. With a capacity of 194, it had 196 inmates on a recent weekday. Twenty-eight other inmates were being held in county jails, awaiting a bed at the prison on South 27th Street in Billings. One of the biggest factors in the prison population size is that many women are released only to return again and again. Between 2000 and 2009, the Montana Women’s Prison recidivism rate fluctuated between 26 percent and 43 percent, according to the Montana Department of Corrections biennial report. For 2009, the most recent year for which the recidivism rate has been calculated, the rate was 36.8 percent. That means more than a third of the women released from the prison came back within three years. Only 9 percent of inmates released were convicted of new crimes. The rest violated the conditions of their community supervision. Each instance of recidivism is a failure of the individual and of a system that is just beginning to ramp up the many supports inmates need for successful re-entry to the community. Read More. |
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