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What is the recidivism rate in Montana? ›

What is the Recidivism Rate in Montana? Perhaps one of the most telling indicators of the success of a state's criminal justice program is its recidivism rate. According to Montana's Department of Corrections, the state has a recidivism rate of about 36% to 38%, varying slightly from year to year.

What is a conditional discharge? In Montana, if a person is convicted of a felony level crime and is serving probation, there is a process called conditional discharge. This allows that person to petition the court to allow them to end probation early and then later terminate the sentence early with the courts.

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Alaska. According to the Alaska Department of Corrections, Alaska's recidivism rate is 66.41, with two-thirds of those individuals being reincarcerated within six months of being released. This is the highest rate in the country.

How does recidivism differ by the types of crime committed? Prisoners who committed property crimes had the highest rates of recidivism, with 78% of prisoners arrested again after five years. Violent crime had the lowest recidivism rate, but prisoners also faced longer sentences than other types of crime.

And, because the conditional discharge is an admission of guilt for a criminal charge, U.S. Customs will likely refuse you entry to United States if they perform a record check when you're crossing the border.

A conditional discharge (not to be confused with a conditional sentence) is a sentence in law that allows a person to be found guilty of an offence without having a conviction registered against him or her. In Canada, a person is not considered to have a criminal record until a conviction is registered against then.

Specifically, the most relevant risk factors are criminal history, antisocial attitudes, associates, and personality (with the latter three being criminogenic needs). These are referred to as the “Big Four” (Andrews and Bonta, 2003).

State-owned and Contracted Correctional Facilities

The Montana Department of Corrections has four state-run facilities and 18 contracted facilities throughout Montana.

Which US state has the lowest recidivism rate? ›

Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20% rearrested within 5 years versus 76.6% in the US. Prisons in Norway and the Norwegian criminal justice system focus on restorative justice and rehabilitating prisoners rather than punishment.

A U.S. Department of Justice analysis of recidivism rates in 24 states concluded that 82 percent of individuals released from state prisons were rearrested at least once during the 10 years following release. Within one year of release, 43 percent of formerly incarcerated people were rearrested.

Despite the significant increase in the number of parole grants to inmates serving long sentences (8,000 parole grants in the last 10 years) the recidivism rates for these formerly incarcerated persons remains very low, at two to four percent for general recidivism and less than one percent for recidivism involving ...