Feb 14, 2018 ... A new study out of Rhode Island shows a dramatic reduction in overdose deaths  ... showed a more than 60 percent reduction in opioid overdose deaths among ...  The inmates were also referred to treatment after their release. ... rate is 120  times higher for people released from prisons and jails, compared ...
RIDOC continues to have one of the five lowest incarceration rates in the country.  ... that the Rhode Island prison population will stay relatively stagnant with under  .... The Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) at the Rhode Island Department of .....  Sixty percent (60%) are .... served, recent recidivism studies do not show any in-.
Jul 7, 2015 ... But at last count, Rhode Island had the third-highest probation rate in the nation:  the ... And the vast majority — 60 percent — were “inactively supervised,” ... in  strategies that can reduce recidivism and increase public safety.”.
Feb 14, 2018 ... PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A treatment program for opioid ... of its  kind in the nation, screens all Rhode Island inmates for opioid use disorder ... the  study showed a 61 percent decrease in post-incarceration deaths. ... “People  have been searching for some way to stop overdose deaths,” said ...
After years of steady decline, Rhode Island's incarcerated ... probation, and an  estimated 60 percent of sentenced ... savings in strategies that can reduce  recidivism and increase ... Although Rhode Island has a low incarceration rate,  the state ...
Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent.