Recidivism in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s Prison Initiative is Zero Percent!
Candidates for graduation listen to the speaker at a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Prison Initiative commencement.
It’s true. Among graduates of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s Prison Initiative the recidivism rate is zero percent. That’s phenomenal when you consider that a recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed 68 percent of inmates released from prison were re-arrested within three years.
Each year about a dozen student-inmates graduate from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø with an accredited Associate of Arts degree they earn while studying in cohorts at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, just across the Broad River from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s main campus. The graduates then become chaplain’s assistants in the South Carolina prison system. A total of 157 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Prison Initiative alumni serve in over 20 institutions around the state.
The success of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Prison Initiative caught the attention of , a ministry of the .
Read about it in the article by Warren Cole Smith, vice president at the Colson Center.
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