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According to a report by Statistics Austria, the reconviction rate in 2022 was 30%.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

A 2008 study by Alison Laichter, a graduate student at Columbia University, showed that participants in the GreenHouse program had a 40 percent lower rate of reconviction than inmates in the general prison population.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2019

Continuing education’s positive impact in preventing re-arrest and reconviction extends to sex offenders, in some categories of offense.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2019

This compares with a UK average reconviction rate for released female prisoners of 51% within 12 months.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2013

Question: Ought prisoners on reconviction to be subjected to more severe disciplinary treatment than on the first sentence?

From The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences by Quinby, Hosea