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Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, June 2, 2002 202/307-0784

TWO-THIRDS OF FORMER STATE PRISONERS REARRESTED FOR SERIOUS NEW CRIMES

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Sixty-seven percent of former inmates released from state prisons in 1994 committed at least one serious new crime within the following three years, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was a rearrest rate 5 percent...