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Highlights
- At least 95% of all State prisoners will be released from
prison at some point; nearly 80% will be released to parole
supervision.
- At yearend 2002, 1,440,655 prisoners were under the
jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities.
- In 2001, about 592,000 State prison inmates were released to
the community after serving time in prison.
- Nearly 33% of State prison releases in 1999 were drug
offenders, 25% were violent offenders and 31% were property
offenders.
- 670,169 adults were under State parole supervision at
yearend 2002.
- By the end of 2000, 16 States had abolished discretionary
release from prison by a parole board for all offenders.
- Among State parole discharges in 2000, 41% successfully
completed their term of supervision; relatively unchanged since
1990.
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