Inmates Behavior And Recidivism In Prisons

Inmates’ behavior is a major factor that determines their success or failure of society reentry. College Programs allows inmates to express themselves through academic approaches (e.g., writing, drawing, communicating, etc.) addressing antisocial personality. With education, most inmates come to the realization that they have to respect and accept others to be treated the same. College Programs is effective in deconstructing inmates’ anti-social personality as they become more open-minded. Although most prisons provide GED, College Programs enhance GED results. Hughes et al. (2012) inmates attending college education one or more years reveal significant reduction results in recidivism (p. 149). Commonly, educational and correctional administrators develop a risk assessment before and after inmates are prison release.
Most educated inmates properly communicate in a calm state while the most non-educated inmates derogatorily communicate in a hostile state. Majority of educated inmates pursuit college/employed while the majority of non-educated inmates recidivate. Davis et al. (2014) research indicate, “…that inmates who participated in correctional education programs had a 36 percent lower odds of recidivating than inmates who did not” (p. 50). Behavior and recidivism are interconnected; thus, education programs deter inmates from criminal behavior reducing recidivism. With education, correctional administrators have correctional records of most educated inmates to be labeled as low risk in risk assessment. Hughes et al. (2012) inform, “…the meta-analysis indicated a statistically significant outcome in favor of educational programs reducing reoffending” (p.