re: #384 Kragar

29% recidivism rate?

That’s lower than the rate for adult offenders in the US, where on average 40% are back in the system within 3 years.

According to the survey results, 45.4
percent of people released from prison in 1999 and 43.3 percent of those sent home in 2004 were reincarcerated within three years, either for committing a new crime or for violating conditions governing their release. While differences in survey methods complicate direct comparisons of national recidivism rates over time, a comparison of the states included in both the Pew/ASCA and BJS studies reveals that recidivism rates have been largely stable. When excluding California, whose size skews the national picture, recidivism rates between 1994
and 2007 have consistently remained around 40 percent.