An estimated two-thirds of prisoners released in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said today in the first major federal study of recidivism in nearly two decades.
More than three-quarters (77 percent) were arrested within five years.
The study covers 405,000 prisoners released by 30 states in 2005. More than one-third (37 percent) were arrested within six months of their release from prison, and more than half (57 percent) were arrested by the end of the first year. That corresponds with earlier research indicating that the highest chances of rearrest are soon after a prison release.
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