Trends in data, collected by the National Corrections Reporting Program, revolving around reoffending convicted criminals has been analyzed by looking at the data sets of prison admissions and releases. The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects their data submitted by state corrections and parole departments. I find it interesting how there are only some small differences in Pew’s and the BJS’s return-to-prison data in 2005. I would have expected more apparent differences based on the different measurements of data collection. For example, the BJS includes data on 70k out of 400k rearrested prisoners, strategically selecting based on their access to fingerprints that link records to prisoners. They could also remove prisoners in their data sets who have died, which is necessary because dead prisoner data could skew the whole data set. Pew could not access this sort of information, or enough information to the degree that BJS could which makes me question how BJS’s and Pew’s numbers only show small differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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