Daily News: Ex-terrorists, walking the streets: We've got to get better, and quick, about reintegrating former jihadis into society
Terrorism-related offenders, who by the very nature of their criminality were at violent odds with American society, face the complex process of reintegrating against the strong headwinds of extraordinarily high recidivism rates. While garden-variety federal prisoners have a 44.7% re-arrest rate after five years, among Guantanamo Bay detainees (our best proxy) approximately 20% were suspected of re-engaging in terrorist or insurgent activities post-release. We were encouraged to see the Trump administration counterterrorism strategy emphasize the importance of rehabilitation and reintegration. Yet while the inclusion was noteworthy, the strategy was light on details of the "how?" It is the how that we identified in a report we released with the Counter Extremism Project earlier this month.
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