recidivism

The Northern Arapaho Reentry Agency started up this year after the Northern Arapaho Tribe got a federal grant. It’s meant to help Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribal members coming from prison readjust to life on the reservation and stay out of jail.

Recidivism rates in the U.S. are some of the highest in the world. And in Wyoming, 33 percent of inmates are back in prison within the first year. But studies show that animal therapy can help reduce that by teaching things like responsibility, nonviolence and empathy. Wyoming has a special program – one of only five in the country – that teaches inmates how to tame wild horses.

Research shows that receiving a college education behind bars dramatically reduces a prisoner's chances of winding up in prison a second time. A new grant program will help Wyoming prisoners achieve that.

Wyoming’s prison system boasts the second best recidivism rate in the country. Twenty-five percent of offenders in the state will return to prison for a…