Community Corrections for Professionals : Statistics

Standardizing Parole Violation Sanctions

CC Pro — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:04:00 GMT

The economic realities of many state budgets has prompted a renewed examination of how corrections systems do business. One of the areas of concern has been the number of costly and time-consuming parole violation hearings that often result in the re-incarceration of parolees (Table 6). Is there a methodology parole agencies can utilize to address parole violations and the accompanying sanctions in a fairer and more proportionate manner? In an attempt to answer this question, two states (California and Ohio) have employed standardized tools that provide a grid of graduated sanctions to assist in parole violation decision making. Standardizing Parole Violation Sanctions, a National Institute of Justice Journal report highlights both states and the possible implications the use of standardized tools may have on a national basis.

A full report on the impact of Ohio's Progressive Sanction Grid is available here. Information on California's Parole Violation Decision Making Instrument (PVDMI) may be found here.

Information and Statistics on State Parole Supervising Agencies

Sandy Schilling — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:33:00 GMT

The Bureau of Justice statistics has recently released Characteristics of State Parole Supervising Agencies, 2006. This report presents the midyear 2006 information and data collected from 52 state agencies that supervise an adult parole population of 660,959 and an adult probation population of 1,200,570.

Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006

CC Pro — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:18:00 GMT

The latest statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, on probation and parole populations in the United States at year end 2006 are available here.