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http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pandp.htmSummary findings

Probationers include adult offenders whom courts place on community supervision generally in lieu of incarceration.

Parolees include those adults conditionally released to community supervision whether by parole board decision or by mandatory conditional release after serving a prison term. They are subject to being returned to jail or prison for rule violations or other offenses.

• At yearend 2007, over 5.1 million adult men and women were supervised in the community, either on probation or parole. More than 8 in 10 were on probation (4,293,163), while less than 2 in 10 were on parole (824,365).
• About 1 in every 45 adults in the U.S. was supervised in the community, either on probation or parole, at yearend 2007.
• The total community supervision population grew by 103,100 offenders during 2007. While the parole population (up 3.2%) increased at a faster pace than the probation population (up 1.8%) during the year, probation accounted for three-quarters (77,800) of the growth in the number of offenders under community supervision.
• At the end of 2007 —
  

  – Among offenders on probation, about half had been convicted for committing a misdemeanor (51%), 47% for a felony, and 3% for other infractions. The most common type of offense for which offenders were on probation was a drug offense (27%).

  – Nearly all offenders on parole had been sentenced to a period of incarceration of one year or more (96%). The most common type of offense for which offenders were on parole was a drug offense (37%).

  – Women comprised 23% of the nation’s probationers and 12% of the nation’s parolees.

  – Fifty-five percent of adults on probation were white, 29% were black, and 13% were Hispanic. Forty-two percent of parolees where white, 37% were black, and 19% were Hispanic.

• Entries to probation supervision (2.4 million) exceeded exits from supervision (2.3 million) during 2007.
• Similar to probation, entries to parole supervision (555,900) also exceeded exits from parole (531,400) during 2007.

• During 2007, a total of 1,180,469 parolees were at-risk of being re-incarcerated, which included those under parole supervision on January 1 or who entered parole during the year. Of these parolees, about 16% were returned to incarceration in 2007.

1 in 32 Americans in Jails, on Parole

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Thursday, November 30, 2006

By KASIE HUNT

WASHINGTON —  A record 7 million people _ or one in every 32 American adults _ were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.

More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.

Men still far outnumber women in prisons and jails, but the female population is growing faster. Over the past year, the female population in state or federal prison increased 2.6 percent while the number of male inmates rose 1.9 percent. By year's end, 7 percent of all inmates were women. The gender figures do not include inmates in local jails.

“Today's figures fail to capture incarceration's impact on the thousands of children left behind by mothers in prison,” Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based group supporting criminal justice reform, said in a statement. “Misguided policies that create harsher sentences for nonviolent drug offenses are disproportionately responsible for the increasing rates of women in prisons and jails.”

From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.