From SUCCESS:
More than 1.2 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. in 2021, according to the most recent data available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The U.S. also leads the world in recidivism—when a person convicted of a crime has another encounter with the justice system.
Recidivism statistics in the U.S. are bleak. A 2021 Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that 66% of people released from prison in 24 different states in 2008 were re-arrested within three years. At the decade mark, 82% had been re-arrested. Many of these arrests led to reincarceration: parole and probation violations and new sentences led 61% of prisoners released in 2008 to return to prison within a decade.
Although these rates are dropping, rearrest and reincarceration rates are notably high. Young people are more likely to be reincarcerated; however, the severity of the crime for which the individual was originally convicted had no effect on recidivism rates. Continue reading >>>
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