Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1983 - Bureau of Justice ...

~--------------------- --.--------Section 6:PERSONS lJ'-lDER CORRECTIONAL SLPERVISIONT~is section presents information onpersons under supervision or otherwise detainedunder some form of court or correctionalauthority. Data are reported on probation, onpost-adjudicatory confinement, on parole, andon persons sentenced to death.The probation data are from the I'JationalProbation Reports program and from theFederal Probation System. These data describethe flow of persons entering and leaving localand Federal probationary supervision.Post-adj ud i cator}f confi nement datainclude characteristics of residents of juvenilecorrectional facilities, drug treatmentprograms, local jails, and adult correctionalfacilities. The juvenile data are broken downaccording to confinement in public or privatefaci lities, ard detent ion or correct iona Ifaci I ities. For the drug treatment programs,information is given on the characteristics ofpersons entering federally-funded programs.Data on inmates of local jails areavailable from the 1978 National Jail Censusand the companion Survey of Inmates of LocalJai Is, both of which were conducted by theU.S. Bureau of the Census for the Bureau ofJustice Statistics under the National PrisonerStatistics program. Data are presented, byState, for adults and juveniles. The data onlocal jail inmate characteristics include age,race, sex, education, pre-arrest employmentand income, military service, heroin use,detention status, offense, bai I status, legalrepresentation and method of conviction. Incomparison, similar information is available onadult inmates in State and Federal institutions.Additionally, data are presented on thepopulation of U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy andMarine Corps correctional institutions.--Detailed information is provided onpersons under post-release supervision fromcorrectional institutions, with a particularfocus on parole. Data regarding personsconditionally and unconditionally released fromFederal custody, and persons released to andremoved from Federal supervision are reported.Data are presented from the Uniform ParoleReports program on the number of admissionsto and departures from parole supervision.This section concludes with statisticscompiled on State and Federal inmates whohave been executed or who are presently undersentence of death. These data are presentedby the inmates' age, sex, race, commitmentoffense, and time spent in detention awaitingexecution.'.4\,Preceding page blank543