By: Teddy Grant In the first season of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black (OITNB), Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson, a Black female prisoner played by Danielle Brooks, was released from prison only to be locked back up a few episodes later after realizing how difficult it was to reacclimate to society after incarceration. While Taystee is fictional, her story may sound familiar to the thousands of people behind bars who were released but ended up back in prison. The recidivism, or reconviction, rate in the U.S. is one of the highest in the world. Around 44% of prisoners are rearrested within one year of release, according […]
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