Report: Virginia recidivism rate remains among lowest in the country
Published Monday, May. 24, 2021, 6:48 pm
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Virginia, for the fifth year in a row, is in the top two states nationally with its three-year prison recidivism rate, at 23.9 percent, second only to South Carolina’s rate of 21.9 percent.
Of the 12,551 state responsible inmates released from incarceration in Virginia in fiscal year 2016, 2,997 were re-incarcerated within three years.
Virginia waits at least four years to calculate the three-year re-incarceration rate to ensure all court orders are included.