Dana DiFilippo (New Jersey Monitor) People released from New Jersey prisons in recent years are committing fewer new crimes than they did a decade ago, state corrections officials announced this week in a new report on recidivism. The department tracked the 4,174 people freed from state custody in 2021 and found that 6% of men and 2% of women returned to prison within three years for convictions for new offenses. That’s a 50% drop from 2013, whe…
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