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Recidivism isn’t the only measure of progress after incarceration
Crime rates are increasing across the United States. If history is any indication, many policymakers and Americans will look to our prisons and jails in the next few years to stop the crime rise.  But how do we know whether incarceration works as intended? The existing standard for measuring whether someone is successful after release from prison is recidivism — a simple binary “yes or no” if a person commits another crime after leaving prison. Recidivism is used as a key metric for evaluating the effectiveness of prisons and reentry programs and as a marker of public safety. The historical emphasis on recidivism among policy analysts, practitioners and scholars stems, at least i

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