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ATLANTA — More than 40 percent of former convicts commit crimes within three years of release and wind up back behind bars, according to a new study.
The study, by the Pew Center on the States, concluded there was marginal improvement in the recidivism rate even as spending on corrections has increased to about $52 billion annually from about $30 billion a decade ago.
About 43 percent of prisoners who were let out in 2004 were sent back to prison by 2007, either for a new crime or violating the conditions of release, the study found. That is down from 45 percent in a similar period beginning in 1999.
