About 45 percent of federal prisoners end up back in custody within three years of their release, according to statistics from prisoner advocate group The Sentencing Project.
Damian Bradford was a free man for just 606 days.
Monday, jury selection begins in Beaver County Court for Bradford, 42, who faces charges that he shot and seriously wounded a state trooper during a struggle at an Aliquippa convenience store in August, 2022.
Defense attorney William Difenderfer maintains that the shooting was an accident.