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SINGAPORE: The drug reoffending rate has increased for the third straight year, but the overall recidivism rate remains “low and stable”, said the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) on Tuesday (Feb 11).
The two-year recidivism rate for the Drug Rehabilitation Centre’s (DRC) 2022 release cohort was 30.8 per cent, up from 27.7 per cent the year before, 26.1 per cent for the 2020 cohort and 24.5 per cent in 2019, according to the latest annual statistics released on Tuesday.
A two-year recidivism rate refers to the percentage of local offenders who were jailed, detained or got a day reporting order within two years of their release into the community.
The overall two-year recidivism rate was 21.3 per cent for the 2022 release cohort, down slightly from 22 per cent the preceding year. This is also one of the lowest two-year recidivism rates globally, added SPS.
The overall two-year recidivism rates for women have also been consistently falling over the past five years of release cohorts, from 19.1 per cent for the 2018 cohort to 13 per cent for the 2022 cohort, said SPS.
It attributed this to its gender specific correctional approach with female inmates, including understanding the offending pathways for them and providing rehabilitation programmes, to reintegrate them into society.
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