Recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime.
From House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) writing at The Hill:
We can’t afford to give terrorists a one-way ticket back to the battlefield
Last week the Obama Administration approved its largest-ever release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, sending 15 extremists back into the world.
By now, the pattern has become familiar: the President lets hardened terrorists go free, Congress and the American people express outrage, and the White House ignores the uproar.
But the grave risks of this policy cannot be ignored. The President is giving terrorists a one-way ticket back to the battlefield.
And the numbers:
Nearly 700 inmates have been released from Gitmo, and more than 200 have returned to the fight or are suspected of doing so, according to the Director of National Intelligence. And that’s just who we know about.
Who we know about is the key phrase here - many of them just drop off the face of this Earth and we will see them again when they commit their next act of terror. We are in a war that was declared on us back in the 1890's and we still refuse to recognize it as such.
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