In 2006, Central Connecticut State University produced a study on recidivism for the Department of Correction. It tracked 8,821 inmates released in Connecticut in 2000, for the subsequent five years. The study noted that 17 percent, or 1,499, of the inmates had instant offenses that were termed as “violent.”
Over the course of the study, 39 percent, or 3,440, of the former prisoners were reconvicted, at an average rearrest point of 255 days after release. Of these, 1,410 were reconvicted on weapons charges, 756 on sex offenses, 1,238 on drug offenses, 1,307 on “personal” offenses (not otherwise described) and 1,548 on property charges. These obviously involved more than one offense for some people, but the data indicated that well more than half were reconvicted for offenses which were, if not entirely violent, certainly dangerous.
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