The Virginia Department of Corrections announced it again achieved one of the lowest recidivism rates in the nation.
The 20.6% rate for fiscal year 2018 improves on the 22.3% rate for fiscal year 2017. Virginia is second only to South Carolina among the 35 states that report re-incarceration of state-responsible inmates within three years of their release. This is the seventh year in a row that Virginia has had the second lowest or the lowest rate of recidivism in the nation.