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Chart comparing 3 year re-arrest rates for any new offense among people released from prison in 2005, by original offense type. People convicted of violent offenses have the lowest re-arrest rate at 62%, while people convicted of property offenses have the highest rate at 75%

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism: A 9-Year Follow-up Period (2005-2014) Table 7. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2019)

This graph originally appeared in Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms.

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