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Half a million crimes are committed each year by ex-convicts. By MATTHEW HICKLEY and JAMES SLACK. Last updated at 21:23 09 May 2008. More than 500,000 crimes a year are committed by serial offenders who have just been freed from jail or sentenced to a community punishment. Latest figures show four in ten criminals were caught offending again within 12 months, the Ministry of Justice said last night.