Parole

     U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
     
     
     
     
     
     
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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...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

ONE IN EVERY 32 ADULTS NOW ON PROBATION, PAROLE OR INCARCERATED

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The nation's correctional population reached a record of more than 6.7 million adult men and women by the end of 2002, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today...

ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WERE IN PRISON OR JAIL OR
ON PROBATION OR PAROLE IN 2007

WASHINGTON - More than 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons or jails or on probation or parole...