A 2021 U.S. Justice Department study of 404,638 convicts released from state prisons in 2012 found that within five years of their release, 28% were arrested for committing a new violent offense, 71% were arrested for committing a new offense, and 97% of those arrested were detained for an offense other than a probation or parole violation. During this five-year period, these former inmates were arrested for an estimated 3,266 new homicides, 5,716 new rapes/sexual assaults, 19,598 new robberies, and 88,192 new assaults.