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How many offenders are repeat offenders? Information about and access to findings from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recidivism studies is available on the Recidivism section of the BJS website. Also see BJS's Prisoner Recidivism Data Analysis Tool, which you can use to calculate recidivism rates for persons released from state prisons in 2005. Also see BJS's Reentry Trends in the U.S.: Recidivism page for additional resources. Last Updated: October 17, 2014

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