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More on the passage of the Second Chance Act

By Douglas A. Berman

Over in this post at a WSJ blog, Gary Fields reports on the passage of the Second Chance Act: After three years of procedural and legislative delays, a prisoner re-entry bill first introduced in 2005 has cleared the Senate and is heading to the president?s desk....   The Second Chance Act passed Tuesday evening, and is now expected to be signed by President Bush. The measure provides about $180 million a year in 2009 and 2010 for prisoner re-entry services to curb a recidivism rate that has held steady at about 66%, meaning that two-thirds of all inmates released annually from state and federal prisons re-offend or violate the conditions of their release within three years and are locked back up. Close to 700,000 people a year are released from prisons, according to Justice Department statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).