In North America about 68% of 405,000 prisoners in 30 states in 2005 were arrested

for a new crime within 3 years of their release date. That means that 275,400 prisoners that
were former prisoners returned to prison for misdeeds. As well in a national standpoint that
the federal prison reform act of 2013 does provide and I quote Requires the System to
provide guidance on the kind and amount of recidivism reduction programming or
productive activities assigned for each classification of prisoner; This basically means that
the national prisoner systems are required to provide the programs to have the recidivism
rate of the prisoners down. Another reference related more to georgia is in 2013 governor
nathan deal signed an adult criminal justice reform bill that revises minimum mandatory
sentencing laws, expands the states right to evidence appeals and creates a new Georgia
Criminal Justice Reform Commission, this will be in action until 2023. Also in 2013,
Governor Nathan Deal signed the Juvenile Justice Reform Bill; the goal of this bill is to
reduce the repeat juvenile offender. This in turn will decrease the prisoner incarceration rate
in the future as the younger criminal generation will not be repeat offenders thus making the
prisons not so crowded, however in these prisoners they will always house the worst of the
worst, because they will be the ones who actually are repeat offenders after their prison
sentence when they were young. However on the bright side our state has a slightly better
reoffense rate than the rest of the nation so thats a plus. With all these reforms and laws
nathan deal said on february 26, 2014 that Georgia has saved $20 million through changes
in criminal sentencing. This quote goes along with the reform acts because there intended
outcome was to decrease state prison budget costs, however i think the real reason should
have been to make georgia a safer place where the people released from prison have a
lower chance to commit their crime again. Now when they announced this act it was said to
save taxpayers 264 million dollars due to the new incarceration rules and there programs to
have offender not end up back in jail. All these laws have worked in georgia but i think that
were missing something, something that needs to be put in place like more programas,
because who doesn't want georgia to be a safe place, I mean there is evil in the world, but
who says we cant prevent that evil. However, what most people tend not to look at is the
effect on lawyers, prosecutors, and judges. They might have there job cut back some, I
mean its greats that people want to fix some of the issues that our justice system has and
that all systems have, but the jobs of these people could see a significant decrease, though
not totally annihilated. The reason is because if they don't have people to send to court
there's no need for these jobs, but we don't have to worry about that because everyones not
perfect and even though what they might have done was wrong they still have rights in the
constitution. This makes lawyers need to defend the people who did commit the crime and
try to prove them innocent.

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