The ratio of elderly former inmates who returned to prison within two years of being released in 2015 rose 2.8 percent compared with a year earlier, reaching 23.2 percent, with the figure remaining higher than for younger generations, a government report showed Friday.Nearly a quarter of former prisoners aged 65 or older were imprisoned again by the end of 2016 after committing a fresh crime, while the overall ratio for former inmates of all ages dropped 0.6 point to 18.0 percent, the government white paper on crime showed.As the government aims to reduce the overall ratio to 16 percent or …READ FULL ARTICLE
