Recidivism in ×ÔοÊÓƵ’s Prison Initiative is Zero Percent!
Candidates for graduation listen to the speaker at a ×ÔοÊÓƵ Prison Initiative commencement.
It’s true. Among graduates of Columbia International University’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 ×ÔοÊÓƵ 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 ×ÔοÊÓƵ’s main campus. The graduates then become chaplain’s assistants in the South Carolina prison system. A total of 157 ×ÔοÊÓƵ Prison Initiative alumni serve in over 20 institutions around the state.
The success of the ×ÔοÊÓƵ 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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