{"id":19339,"date":"2011-04-13T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2011-04-13T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:42:21","slug":"explains-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19339","title":{"rendered":"Explains A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, about forty percent of convicted prisoners released from jail re-offend within three years.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>bad <\/em>news?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota led all states with a 61 percent recidivism rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It must be the budget cuts!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, no &#8211; Minnesota spends at around the middle of the pack (here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/spe01.pdf\">http:\/\/bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/spe01.pdf<\/a> on the subject), a:nd recidivism would seem to be almost perfectly evenly divided&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wyoming and Oregon had the lowest overall recidivism rates for offenders released in 2004, with rates hovering below 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota had the highest &#8212; more than 61 percent &#8212; while Alaska, California, Illinois, Missouri and Vermont all topped 50 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;between low and \u00a0high-tax states.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recidivism rate in Kansas dropped by more than 22 percent between 1999 and 2004, while it jumped by about 35 percent in South Dakota over the same period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, about forty percent of convicted prisoners released from jail re-offend within three years. The bad news?: Minnesota led all states with a 61 percent recidivism rate. &#8220;It must be the budget cuts!&#8221; Well, no &#8211; Minnesota spends at around the middle of the pack (here&#8217;s an http:\/\/bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/spe01.pdf on the subject), a:nd recidivism would seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19341,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions\/19341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}