NCJ Number
234939
Date Published
February 2010
Length
34 pages
Annotation
In compliance with the requirements of Connecticut General Statutes Section 4-680, this Annual Report for 2010 presents statistics and information on the recidivism of offenders released from the custody of the Department of Corrections (DOC) and from probation.
Abstract
The report indicates that within 3 years of their release or discharge, 67.5 percent of offenders were rearrested; 53.7 percent were convicted for a new criminal offense; 56.5 percent were returned to prison with new charges for either technical violations or to begin a new prison sentence; and 36.6 percent were reincarcerated to serve a new prison sentence. These recidivism rates are consistent with the analysis performed last year and with Federal findings. During the same year, 1,514 offenders were discharged after completing the terms of their community-supervised parole (746) or transitional supervision (768). These offenders returned to prison at significantly lower rates (24.7 percent for parole and 27.9 percent for transitional supervision) than offenders who were released directly from prison. This suggests that offenders who complete community supervision programs have a higher probability of successful reentry to the community from prison. Of those offenders who had a history of two or more probation violation convictions prior to their 2005 release or discharge, almost 50 percent returned to prison for a new sentence within 36 months. Among offenders with no history of probation violation prior to their release, only 27.3 percent returned within 36 months. Data are also provided on recidivism by gender, age, education need scores, age at release, recidivism and alcohol and drug scores, and recidivism and mental health scores. The 2010 study followed 16,241 sentenced offenders for 3 years after they were released or discharged from a State correctional facility during 2005. Extensive tables and figures and appended supplementary data