According to some latest scientific evidence, a high percentage of offenders, who were behind bars for years, send back to prisons after their releases because they continue to break the law. The main reason of this issue is the unemployment of ex-offenders. However, there is a hope that reentry programs can solve it.
Nowadays, more and more people after doing a specific period of time commit crimes because they cannot just work somewhere, owing to the fact that they have a criminal record. Ex-offenders have disreputation in the society that is why it is so hard for them to find a job after a prison. The employers are afraid of such people because they always think that the sentence has influenced on them very badly. Serving time with recidivists have a great impact on inmates, mainly on their mental health and physical conditions, consequently, it does not allow them to work, for instance, with children or in social sphere. It is a common knowledge that ex-offenders mainly work on low-paid jobs, thus, they want to earn more and decide to commit a crime in order to make a killing.
Implementing reentry programs can help inmates to recover after time in prison. The main goal of this programs is to provide necessary level of education to offenders, helping them to adapt to rapidly changing world and find a better job after release. For example, a huge number of developing countries add such programs in jails and do not concentrate on the punishment more than on the education, being aware of significancy of such programs to reduce the re-offendings’ rate. Providing inmates free basic education and vocational training can help criminals to find appropriate and well-paid job quickly after serving a sentence.
To sum up, after time behind bars a huge number of inmates are not able to find a good-paying job and in order to earn money commit crimes again, yet the introduction of educational trainings during term for serving punishment can dramatically decrease the number of re-offenders.