Last year, lawmakers coalesced around the need to improve rehabilitation programming and reduce recidivism rates as part of a ...

Enrique Sandoval, Daniel Arciniega and Eleazar Alicantar learn English language skills in class at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday. In March 2023, Gov. Newsom announced a plan to transform the ...

In 2004, I arrived at Wende Correctional Facility to serve a sentence of 65 years to life for murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. I was only 17 at the time of my arrest, but the ...

Of course, simply comparing general recidivism rates does not provide direct causal evidence for the effectiveness of green prison programs, nor does it tell us specifically what aspects of the ...

CHOWCHILLA, California — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half of his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he's been striving to make himself a better man than when he arrived. He has ...

Every state and territory must have these programs, but as was recently revealed in New South Wales, they’re often ...

For a long time, the idea of rehabilitation programs inside prisons has generated lots of eye-rolling and scorn. We designed our prison system based on a perceived reality that rehabilitation is not ...