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on Tuesday about its efforts to improve recidivism rates after learning that the agency has rejected numerous attempts from faith-based groups to help.to Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters that they had learned the agency received applications from eight groups with religious affiliations that specialized in recidivism reduction but only partially accepted two of them.
“These numbers are concerning, particularly at a time when individuals across the BOP system are on waitlists to participate in programming,” Lankford and Peters wrote. Lankford, in particular, has been pursuing information from the Bureau of Prisons for at least a year about what work it has done to partner with private groups to reduce recidivism, including those with religious affiliations. Lankford successfully offered the amendment to the First Step Act that required this public-private partnership.
The First Step Act was “signed into law over five years ago, but the implementation of recidivism reduction partnerships appears stagnant,” Lankford and Peters wrote.
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