Man arrested for assault hours after being released from jail

A man released from jail in California was arrested again in Riverside just hours after he was placed on probation.

According to the Riverside Police Department, 25-year-old Dandre Parker Jr. was just released from county jail after serving a six-month sentence for robbery and other charges. 

After being placed on probation for three years as part of his sentence, he was released and arrested "within only a few hours" after he allegedly assaulted a security guard with a large chunk of cement after he told him to leave a grocery store downtown.

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Parker Jr. is back behind bars and faces charges for assault with a deadly weapon, police said. 

In the latest recedivism report published by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the recedivism rate for people in fiscal year 2018-19 was 41.9%.