On This Page

About this Key Statistic

Parolees are offenders under adult supervision 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.

Figure and Table

Table: Estimated number of persons under correctional supervision in the United States, 1980-2014 (Excel, CSV)

• Download data: Excel | CSV

 

 

Recommended Citation: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Key Statistics, <title of figure or table> on the Internet at www.bjs.gov (visited MM,DD,YYYY).

Back to Top    

Publications

• Probation and Parole Populations series
• Correctional Populations in the United States series
• Recidivism of Prisoners Released series

Back to Top    

Data Analysis Tools

• Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) - Parole

Back to Top    

Data Collections

• Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey
• Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)
• National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP)
• National Former Prisoner Survey (NFPS)
• National Inmate Survey (NIS)
• Survey of Inmates in Federal Correctional Facilities (SIFCF)
• Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities (SISCF)
• 2006 Census of State Parole Supervising Agencies

Back to Top    

Topics

• Community Corrections (Probation and Parole)
• Corrections
• Local jail inmates and jail facilities
• Parole
• Prison population counts
• Probation
• State and federal prisoners and prison facilities
• Total correctional population