PRESS RELEASE: Over Half of Females Serving Time for a Violent Offense Were Arrested Within 5 years of Release from prison
Cinnamon Bankey2025-06-15T23:10:38+00:00WASHINGTON, DC, May 1, 2023 –The Bureau of Justice Statistics is announcing the release of Recidivism of Females Released from State Prison, 2012–2017. During the 5 years after their release in 2012, more than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense, while more than a third (38%, compared to 49% of males) had a new conviction for any offense, and about a fourth (27%, compared to 43% of males) were returned to prison. “These findings illustrate the differences in the types of offenses that males and females were [...]
