Recidivism/recidivism is the repetition of criminal activity and is determined by the return to prison of a prisoner who is released from prison for a new crime. Recidivism rates indicate the number of released prisoners who have been rehabilitated and the degree of severity of punishments outside prison. “An estimated 67.5 percent of prisoners released in 1994 were rearrested within three years, an increase from the 62.5 percent found for those released in 1983” (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014). High rates of recidivism entail enormous costs in the field of public safety, and high rates of recidivism could lead to disastrous social costs for communities and the offenders themselves, as well as their families. Therefore, severe punishment is necessary to reduce recidivism, just as education of prisoners is also important. The idea of ​​general crimes obeys the fundamental rule that the stricter the law, the fewer criminals temporarily exist in the country. . According to the study conducted by M. Keith Chen (2007), performing a Pearson χ2 test on the level of security and data on prison conditions provided by the United States Department of Justice, the results, shown in Table 1 (Appendix), the more the harder the security level is, the greater the number of people who will be arrested. Furthermore, a sophisticated analysis (Appendix Table 2) by Shepherd (2002) clearly shows that harsher sentences reduce recidivism. Although data shows that harsher punishment reduces recidivism by only a small percentage, harsh punishment has an effective influence on reducing recidivism. However, to reduce recidivism in a reasonable and effective way, an additional approach is needed. A study conducted by Steurer... in the center of the paper... themselves. People all over the world are the same: as long as they can think, everyone tends to be a useful person. As the data shows, a high school diploma is the most common educational need among prisoners (Mac Donald 2003). Sophisticated research conducted by Steurer, Smith, and Tracy (2001) shows that the prison education program is effective. They found that prison education reduces the recidivism rate (Appendix Figure 1), and the educational program goes a long way in reducing recidivism. More than 10% lower recidivism rate in the areas of rearrest, reconviction and re-incarceration. However, the data may not be very accurate due to the bias of different participant characteristics, but it is still good enough to demonstrate that the prison education program plays a crucial role in reducing recidivism. So, prison education program is important.