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High rate of reoffending

Thursday 25 October 2012 23:58 BST

A quarter of offenders released from prison went straight back to crime, committing almost 500,000 offences last year.

More than half of these were committed by criminals with 11 or more previous offences to their name, Ministry of Justice figures show. More than 50,000 were by 10,000 criminals who had been jailed at least 11 times.

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