Reoffending rate goes up

Some 19% of people released from psychiatric prisons (TBS – see Alphabet Soup) between 1999 and 2003 committed serious crimes within two years their release. The rate for reoffending was 12% in the preceding five-year period, according to justice ministry figures.

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