" programs for people serving sentences for violent crimes. UnCommon Law has worked with more than two hundred people who have been released from life sentences—and not one of those people has gone on to commit another violent crime. A study out of Stanford looked at people originally sentenced to life for murder who were subsequently released on parole. It determined that of all offenders, lifers who had been in for murder were the least likely group to return to prison if they were released on parole, with a recidivism rate of less than 1 percent. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration