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Fertile Ground is a released inmate after-care program response to recidivism rate. Recidivism is the rate that released offenders return to incarceration, typically within 3-4 years. Read the following statistics to learn more about our criminal justice state of affairs.
State of Recidivism
The Pew/ASCA survey found the three-year return-to-prison rate for inmates released in 1999 to be 45.4 percent, and43.3 percent for those released in 2004.Recidivism rates changed little between the 1999 and 2004 release cohorts, despite more than 63,000 more people being discharged from prison in 2004.The total number of releases from prison increased by 13.5 percent
in the 33 states that reported data for both 1999 and 2004(see Exhibit 1 for state-by-state data). The number of prisoners released increased in29 states but decreased in four. Across the33 states that reported for both periods, the recidivism rate declined slightly, dropping 4.8 percent between the cohorts. Despite a nearly two-decade decline in national crime rates, the rate of re-incarceration for a new crime among those persons released from prison increased by 11.9 percent between the two cohorts in this study. However, this increase was offset by a 17.7 percent drop in the rate of offenders returned for a technical violation. These numbers suggest that states are improving their responses to community supervision violations, thereby reserving prison space for ex-offenders who have committed new crimes. Nevertheless, the increase in the rate of returns for new crimes underscores the need for states to identify and implement evidence-based strategies that protect public safety and hold offenders accountable. Prior to this research, the most recent studies of national recidivism rates by BJS found that the rate of released.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52965606/Pew-Report-2011-State-of-Recidivism
