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The Bureau of Justice Statistics maintains an annual data series, the Annual Parole Survey, designed to provide national, federal, and jurisdiction-level data from administrative records on adults supervised in the community on parole. Data include the total number of parolees supervised, by jurisdiction, on January 1 and December 31 of each year and the number of adults who entered and exited parole supervision during the year. Additional data include the characteristics, such as sex, race and Hispanic or Latino origin, and offense of parolees under supervision at the end of each year.
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Yearend population, national and by jurisdiction
Most recent year: 2010
Prior years:
Entries, national and by jurisdiction
Most recent year: 2010
Prior years:
First entries to parole supervision by selected characteristics; data collected through the National Corrections Reporting Program
Exits, national and by jurisdiction
Most recent year: 2010
Prior years:
State parole discharges by selected characteristics; data collected through the National Corrections Reporting Program
Returned to incarceration
Parolees returned to incarceration
Data collected through the Annual Parole Survey
Parole violators returned to state prison by selected characteristics
Data collected through the National Corrections Reporting Program
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Parole | Parole refers to criminal offenders who are conditionally released from prison to serve the remaining portion of their sentence in the community. Prisoners may be released to parole by a parole board decision (discretionary release/discretionary parole), according to provisions of a statute (mandatory release/mandatory parole), through other types of post-custody conditional supervision, or as the result of a sentence to a term of supervised release. In the federal system, a term of supervised release is a sentence to a fixed period of supervision in the community that follows a sentence to a period of incarceration in federal prison, both of which are ordered at the time of sentencing by a federal judge. Parolees can have a number of different supervision statuses including active supervision, which means they are required to regularly report to a parole authority in person, by mail, or by telephone. Some parolees may be on an inactive status which means they are excluded from regularly reporting, and that could be due to a number of reasons. For instance, some may receive a reduction in supervision, possibly due to compliance or meeting all required conditions before the parole sentence terminates, and therefore may be moved from an active to inactive status. Other supervision statues include parolees who only have financial conditions remaining, have absconded, or who have active warrants. Parolees are also typically required to fulfill certain conditions and adhere to specific rules of conduct while in the community. Failure to comply with any of the conditions can result in a return to incarceration. |