The Data Behind Prison Reform
Roughly 62 percent of people who leave prison are rearrested within three yearsand 39 percent return to prison. In 2023, approximately 450,000 people were released from federal and state prisons. By these odds, 280,000 of them will be rearrested before the end of 2026, and 174,000 will be reincarcerated. This is a broken cycle, and











