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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 statuses include parolees who have only financial conditions remaining, have absconded, or 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.
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Probation and Parole 1993 

PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATIONS REACH NEW HIGHS



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   BJS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1994                         
202-307-0784

PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATIONS REACH NEW
HIGHS

.WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost 5 million Americans--or one in
39 adults--were under some form of correctional control in 1993,
according to the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS).  More than two-thirds of...

Probation and parole populations in the U.S., 1994 

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1995                             202/307-0784

THE NATION'S CORRECTIONAL POPULATION TOPS 5 MILLION

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 5.1 million Americans--or
almost 2.7 percent of the adult population--were under some form
of correctional supervision last year, the Department of Justice
reported today.   Almost three-quarters of these men and women
were being supervised in the...

Probation and Parole Populations, 1995 

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SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1996            202/307-0703

PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATION REACHES 
ALMOST 3.8 MILLION

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There were almost 3.8
million adult men and women on probation or parole
at the end of 1995, an increase of about 119,000
during the year, the Department of Justice
announced today.  The 3.2 percent increase was...

Probation and Parole Populations, 1996 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1997        202/633-3047
     
     
           
NATION'S PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATION
REACHED ALMOST 3.9 MILLION LAST YEAR
     
     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost 3.9 million
adult men and women were on probation or parole
at the end of 1996, an increase of about 128,000
during the year, the Justice Department reported
today.  The number of offenders...

Probation and Parole Populations, 1997 

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1998               202/307-0784

NATION'S PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATION
REACHED NEW HIGH LAST YEAR

     WASHINGTON,  D.C. -- More than 3.9 million
adult men and women--a new record--were
on probation or parole at the end of 1997, the
Justice Department's Bureau of  Justice Statistics
(BJS) announced today.  The 2.9 percent increase
of about...

Probation and Parole in the United States, 1998 

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SUNDAY,  AUGUST 22, 1999                                        202/307-0784 
                
         U.S. CORRECTIONAL POPULATION REACHES 5.9 MILLION OFFENDERS

     WASHINGTON, D.C.   The combined federal, state and local
adult correctional population grew by 163,800 men and women during
1998 to reach a new high of 5.9 million people, the Justice
Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. 
This includes incarcerated inmates and probationers and...

Probation and Parole in 1999 

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SUNDAY, JULY 23,  2000                          202/307-0784 
                


U.S. CORRECTIONAL POPULATION REACHES 6.3 MILLION MEN AND
WOMEN REPRESENTS 3.1 PERCENT OF THE ADULT U.S. POPULATION

     
     WASHINGTON, D.C.   The number of adult men and women
under the supervision of Federal, state and local
correctional authorities rose to a record 6.3 million in
1999, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) announced today...

Probation and Parole in the United States, 2000

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2001 202/307-0784
Revised 8/28/01

NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL POPULATION REACHES NEW HIGH -- GROWS BY 126,400 DURING 2000 TO TOTAL 6.5 MILLION ADULTS

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The nation's combined federal, state and local adult correctional population reached a new high of almost 6.5 million men and women in 2000, having grown by 126,400 men and women...

Trends in State Parole, 1990-2000

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FORTY-TWO PERCENT OF STATE PAROLE DISCHARGES WERE SUCCESSFUL

WASHINGTON, D.C. - About four in every ten persons discharged from parole in 1999 had successfully completed their term of supervision in the community, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The success rate was higher among parolees who had been...