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Committee advances bill creating recidivism-reduction system at Department of Corrections
Summary
The Judiciary Committee voted to pass SB 590, establishing a recidivism reduction system housed at the Department of Corrections and directing development of case plans, risk-needs assessments and expanded programming aimed at reducing returns to custody.
Senators on the Judiciary Committee voted to pass SB 590 after sponsor Sen. Centra Gilmore described the bill's goal: to create a recidivism-reduction system at the secretary level in the Department of Corrections and to codify practices the department and task-force stakeholders identified as necessary to lower the state's high return-to-custody rates.
Gilmore said Arkansas's recidivism rate is "nearly 50 percent" for the cohort cited in committee testimony and pointed to a third-party cost estimate attributing about $140 million in annual costs to…
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