reconviction

• “While I know nothing of the specifics of this case, I think it fair to point out that the known existence of convictions of provably innocent people makes clear the fact that a subsequent reconviction is hardly indisputable proof that the original conviction was correct, but that seems to be the implication of your posthere.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted

• “Payment by outcomes essentially means that a proportion of the payment, from central or local government to providers, is dependent on achieving specified results, for instance, reducing the reconviction rate among young offenders or finding sustainable employment for someone who has been out of work for a long time.”

  The Guardian: Public services, private profits: making employment pay

• “By 2006, their three-year reconviction rate had dropped to 10%.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How to Stop Urban Crime Without Jail Time

• “Napo, the probation union, says the £350m cost of imprisoning them would be better and more effectively spent on intensive community orders with a reconviction rate of 34%.”

  The Guardian: Penal reform must not be gender neutral

• “The commission bases its recommendations on restorative justice in Northern Ireland, where it has produced lower reconviction rates than conventional court sentences.”

  The Guardian: Report recommends more restorative justice to cut youth reoffending

• “Blunt is being advised about how to roll out the plans by Victim Support and the Restorative Justice Consortium, which wants 75,000 victims of robbery, violence and burglary each year to be offered meetings, arguing that this would cut reconviction rates by 27%.”

  The Guardian: Prisons minister says criminals could cut jail sentences by saying 'sorry'

• “Smith points to the absence of a punishment block at the prison, and the fact that it has the lowest reconviction rate of any category B prison.”

  The Guardian: A Rusty Gun by Noel 'Razor' Smith

• “Yet the reconviction rates revealed by the Ministry of Justice show that everyone should be concerned about what happens to released inmates.”

  The Guardian: Cost of re-offending is around £11bn - prison is a colossal failure

• “Fourteen prisons in England and Wales, most of which hold short-term inmates, have reconviction rates of more than 70%, Ministry of Justice figures disclosed today reveal.”

  The Guardian: Reoffending rates top 70% in some prisons, figures reveal

• “The MoJ figures show that reconviction rates were higher for prisoners who had at one time been excluded from school or taken into care, were homeless or jobless before being sent to prison, or had witnessed violence in their childhood home.”

  The Guardian: Reoffending rates top 70% in some prisons, figures reveal

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