Halfway houses are a small safety net. PART 2 Going home. Recidivism rates in Virginia. In January, Marvin Raynor of Portsmouth was released from prison after serving 11 years for a small-time robbery.
Statistics show about half of released felons return to crime.
If he needs it, he'll get a one-way Greyhound bus ticket. After nearly 11 years in state and federal prisons, Marvin will walk away a free man. As with most ex-convicts, there's no place to go but home. He'll be one of more than 1,100 state parolees who live in Hampton Roads. More than 6,300 other offenders on state probation also live in the area.