> the national recidivism (repeat offender) rate is over 75%, the rate in Judge Cicconetti's court is just 10%
Who knew that generic jail/prison punishments don't rehabilitate.
Who knew that generic jail/prison punishments don't rehabilitate.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-judge-unusual-punishments-peo...
> Nationally, the recidivism rate after incarceration is over 75 percent, with close to 50 percent of ex-convicts committing a new crime that can land them back within a year, according to a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Justice. But Cicconetti claims to have a recidivism rate of only 10 percent.
I'd like to know what the DOJ's numbers would say for his area... and similar counties in the area.
So while it's not correct to say Cicconetti's approach lowers recidivism, or that jail time increases it, it's definitely correct to say that a punitive, jail-heavy approach to justice is not at all effective at rehabilitation.
That's not true as well, see Friedman's Thermostat for the extreme case
Generally rehabilitation percentages for "alternative punishments" can be misleading because they tend to be applied to situations where they're more likely to succeed
Thanks for bringing up Friedman's Thermostat, I wasn't aware of that thought experiment, and it's a really great example.