Three federal prisons in California and others
nationwide appear to be falling short in preparing inmates for safe release
into society, investigators are warning, reported McClatchy Newspapers.
Most inmates don’t complete the Federal Bureau of
Prisons’ formal pre-release program, investigators found. Individual prisons
show “widely inconsistent curricula, content and quality” for the programs.
Federal agency coordination is said to be poor.
“We found that the program’s overall effectiveness
remains largely unknown,” the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General
said in a report released Wednesday.
The
findings rely in part on investigators’ evaluations of the Release
Preparation Program at federal facilities in Victorville, San Pedro and Los
Angeles, which are among 10 Federal Bureau of Prisons institutions in
California.
The 48-page report also helps illuminate the
prospects for nearly 125,000 federal prisoners released over the last three
years. These ex-convicts are released directly into communities, home
confinement or residential re-entry centers like those managed by a federal
field office in Sacramento.
The California re-entry centers, commonly known as
halfway houses, include a 27-bed facility in Fresno and a 25-bed
facility in Bakersfield, among others.
Underscoring the high stakes for all these
institutions, a March study cited in the new report found that 49.3 percent of
federal offenders released in 2005 were later arrested for new crimes or
violations of parole conditions.
Of the 68,695 federal prisoners released during
fiscal year 2013, 16.4 percent had been returned to federal custody by 2015.
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