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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 19H3Oregon--The 1980 yearend probation population has beenrevised. Yearend probation population includes unwarrantedabscanders but not those for whom warrants have been issued."Discharges" includes 1,5HO early terminations, 839 warrantedabsconders, and 187 odministrative closures. "Other exits"includes persons incarcerated while probation time remainsrunning.Pennsylvania--Yearend probation papulation does notinclude abscanders. "Discharges" includes 215 absconders.Rhode Island--Yearend probation population includesabsconders. "Exit totals" in Tables 6.3 and 6.5 are not the samedue to missing data.South Carolina--Yearend probation population includesabsconders.South Dakota--The data are for the year ending June 30,1981. Yearend probation population includes absconders.Tennessee--Yearend probation population does not incJuc',~abscanders. "Exit totals" in Tables 6.3 and 6.5 are not the somedue to missing data.Texas--Yearend probation population includes absconders."Discharges" includes 63,081 successful di scharges, 5,515unsuccessful discharges, and 1,536 administrative closures.Utah--Yearend probation population includes absconders."Other exits" includes terminated absconders. "Offense level"data are missing for 24 cases not included in Table 6.4.Verniont--Yearend probation population includesabscon(i.~rs.Virginia--The data are for the year ending June 30, 19HI.Yearend probation population does not include c:bsconders."Entries" includes 248 cases restored to supervision and 96 casesopened administratively. "Discharges" includes 1,855 expirations,1,735 court ordered discharges, and 130 cases closedadministratively. "Exit totals" in Tables 6.3 and 6.5 are not thesome due to missing data.Washington--The 19HO yearend probation population hasbeen revised to include unsupervised cases, warranted cases,"inactive letter" cases, cases supervised out-of-State andprobationers excused from reporting. Yearend probotionpopulation includes absconders.West Virginia--Yearend probation population does notinclude absconders.Wisconsin--The 19t1U probation population has been revised.The 198 I yearend probation population includes 2,506 absconders."Exit totals" in Tables 6.3 and 6.5 are not the same due tomissing dato. ''Offense level" data are missing for 9 cases notincluded in Table 6.4.Wyoming--Yearend probation population includes personswho have been on absconder status for less than 6 months. After6 months absconders for whom warranfs have been issued areremoved from the case load.Agencies providing dataMost of the central reporting agencies listed below reportdata representing all probationers within their State. Some,however, report data representing only a portion of the totalpopulation. In some instances (Alabama, Missouri, Nebraska,Tennessee, Texus, and Wyoming) the central reporting agency hada precise enoug:' handle on the total to make conversion fromtheir reported1umbers to the 100 percent estimate verystraightforward. ("'~exas, for example, reported on 97.69 percentof its total population; Nebraska's reported data cover allprobationers except those from 2 municipal courts, for whichyearer:d counts were readily available.) In the remaining partiallyreporting states (Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, and SouthDakota) the National Probation Reports Program worked with thecentral reporting agencies, Gnd also used data from the U.S.Departmen t of Just ice, Law Enforcement AssistanceAdmini~tration, State and Local Probation and Parole Systems(W~shlngton, D.C.: U.S. Gc.vernment Printing Office, 197!l), toarrive at the most reasonable estimates possible.United States Courts {FederaJ}--Statistical Analysisand Reports Division, Administrative Office of the UnitedStates Courts.Alaboma--Board of Pardons and Paroles.Alaska--Division of Corrections, Department ofHealth and Social Services.Arizona--Administrative Director's Office, SupremeCourt of Arizona.Arkansas--Probation and Parole Services, Departmentof Corrections.California--Bureau of Criminal Statistics and SpecialServices, Department of Justice.Colorado--State Court Administrator's Office.Connecticut--Office of Adult Probation, ConnecticutJudicial Department.Delaware--Office of Probation-Parole, Bureau ofAdult Correction.District of Columbia--Social Services Division, D.C.SUperior Court.Flodda--Planning, Research, alld Statistics;Deportment of Corrections.Georgia--Division of Probation, Department ofOffender Rehabilitation.Hawaii--Planning and Statistics Division, Office of theAdministrative Director of the Courts.. Idaho--Department of Corrections, Division ofProbation and Parole.IIlinois--Probation Division, Administrative Office ofthe Illinois Courts.Indiana--Division of State Court Administration,Indiana Supreme Court.lowa--Division of Adult Corrections, Department ofSocial Services.Kansas--Office of Judicial Administration.Kentucky--Research and Evaluation Unit, Bureau ofCorrections.Louisiana--Office of Management and Finance,DepartmE.nt of Corrections.Maine--Division of Probation and Parole, Departmentof Mental Health and Corrections.Maryland--Division of Parole and Probation.Massachusetts--Office of the Commissioner ofProbation.Michigan--Bureou of Field Services, Department ofCorrections.Minnesota--Department of Corrections.Mississippi--Department of Corrections.Missouri--Board of Probation and Parole, Departmentof Social Services.Montana--Corrections Support Bureau, CorrectionsDivision, Deportment of Institutions.Nebraska--District Courts-State ProbationAdministration.Nevada--Department of Adult Parole and Probation.New Hampshire--Deportment of Probation.New Jersey--Administrative Office of the Courts.New Mexico--Field Services Bureou, CorrectionsDivision, Criminal Justice Deportment.New York--Divisior. of Probation.North Carolina--Division of Adult Probation andParole, Deportment of Corrections.North Dakota--Interstate Compact AdministrationOffice, Department of Parole and Probation.~hio--Probation Development Section, Adult ParQleAuthority.Oklahoma--Division of Probation and Porole,Department of Corrections.Oregon--Corrections Division, Department of HumanResources.Pennsylvania--Research and Statistical Division,Board of Probation and Parole.Rhode Island--Adult Probation and Parole,Department of Corrections.South Carolina--Probation, Parole, and Pardon Board.South Dakota--State Court Administrator's Office,lJI1ified Judicial System.Tennessee--Adult Probation, Deportment ofCorrection.Texas--Division of Information Services, Texas AdultProbation Commission (TI>PC).Utah--Adult Probation and Parole, Division ofCorrections.Vermont--Research and Planning DIvision, Deportmentof Corrections.Virginla--Research and Reportir,g Unit, Division ofProgram Development and Evaluation, Department ofCorrections.Washington--Adult Corrections Division, Departmentof Social and Health Services.West Virginia--Administratlve Office, Supreme Courtof Appeals, and Probation/Parole Services, Deportment ofCorrections.Wi scons i n- -PI ann ing, Evaluation and StatisticalAnalysis Section; Division of Corrections; Department ofHealth and Social Services.Wyoming--Department of Probation and Parole.,tII.~Definitions of termsAPPENDIX 17Parole in the United States-­Definitions of ter= and survey methodologyNJTE: This information was provided by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, ResearchCenter West.The 1980 aggregate porole data were provided to the Uniform Parole Reports programvoluntarily by the parole authorities/corrections departments of the 50 States, the U.S. ParoleCommission, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.These data update the 1979 data published in National Council an Crime and Delinquency, UniformParole Reports, Parole in the United States: 1979 (San Francisco: National Council an Crimeand Delinquency, Research Center West, 1980). The 1981 parole data survey was used to collectdata from the 50 States, the U.S. Parole Commission, and the District of Columbia.Entries--Persons entering porole supervision from a correctionalfacility as a result of either parole, reparole, reinstatement, ormandatary supervised release.Mandatory supervised release--Persons entering parolesupervision from a correctional facility upon expiration of sentence notas a result of a paroling authority decision.Parole population--AII persons under the jurisdiction of aparoling authority. (Out-of-state parolees under courtesy supervisionare counted in the population of the paroling authority withjurisdiction.)Paroling authority--A board, commission, or authorityresponsible for parole supervision which mayor may not havediscretionary power to release offenders from prison to the expirationof sentence, to revoke parole and return violators to prison, and toreinstate or grant other forms of reentry to porole supervision.Removals--Persons removed from parole: discharges, includingterminations, completion of term and early discharges; revocations andrecommitments to prison; and deaths.Agency explanatory notesU.S. Parole Commission (FederaJ)--The 1980 yearend parolepopulation has been revised. Yearend purole population includesabscanders. "Other entries" includes special parole, an additionalperiod of parole served following completion of regular parole ormandatory release by some drug offenders as required under the DrugAbuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. "Revocations" includesviolators who may not have been officially revoked but whose lastrecorded activity prior to the case being closed was a violation."Otner exits" includes terminations due to hospitaliZations,deportations, etc., and an adjustment residual.Alabama--The data are for fiscal year HHI. Yearend porolepopulation includes absconders. Abscanders are considered inactive,delinquent cases. "Discharges" is a Uniform Parole Report estimate tomake the yearend totals balance anel includes 29 persons who werepardoned.Alaska--Yearend parole population includes absconders. Thedata reported include only parolees released from prison through aparole board decision. Nat included are approximately 35 mandatoryreleasees under supervision of the Department of Corrections.Arizona--Yearend porale population does not include absconders."Entries" does nat ir,o::lude 276 work furloughees released during 1981under the coordinated supervision of the Community Treatment Centerand Adult Parole Services.Arkansas--Yearend parole population does not includeabsconders. "Discretionary entries" includes 56 persons paroled todetainers.California Deportment of Corrections--Yearend parolepopulation includes absconders. "Other entries" includes reactivatedcases.California Department of Youth Authority--Yearend parolepapulation i.ncludes absconders. On Dec. 31, 1981 there were 224absconders. "Other entries" inclUdes persons whose holding timeexpired, releasees from Department of Health institutions, etc. The"Entry" data in Tables 6.50 and 6.51 are not the same due to missingdata.Colorado--Yearend parole population does not includeQbscollders.Connecticut--Yearend porole population includes absconders.On Dec. 31, 19U I there were approximately 400 absconders."Discharges" includes 269 early discharges.De laware--Yearend parole population includes absconders."Discharges" includes dishonorable discnnrges.District of Columbia--Yearer." parole population includesunwarranted absconders but does not include absconders for whomwarrants have been Issued. The "Entry" and "Exit" data are not thesame in Tables 6.50 and 6.51 due to missing data.Florida--The 19BO yearend parole population has been revised.Yearend porole population does not include absconders. The datainclude mandatory parolees although the program is being eliminated.At the beginning of 1981 there were 921 mandatory conditiona Ireleasees but by the end of 198 I there were only 5.Georgia--The 19BO parole population has been revised. Yearendparole population does not include absconders. The data include outof-Statecases under supervision in Georgia, but do not include Georgiacases under supervision out-of-State. "Discretionary entries" includes689 youthful offenders. "Exits" includes 542 youthful offenders, 262 ofwhom were discharged and 280 of whom were revoked.Hawaii--Yearend porole papulation does not include absconders."Revocations" includes two persons revoked for technical violations.The "Exit" data are not the same in Tables 6.50 and 6.51 due tomissing data.Idaho--Yearend parole population includes absconders.IIlinois--Yearend parole population does nat include absconders.The "Exit" data are not the same in Tables 6.50 and 6.51 due tomissing data.Indiana--Yearend parole population does not include abscondersor inactive cases. Movement of the parole population includes transferswithin and between districts. "Other entries" includes reinstatementsand transfers. "Other exits" includes absconders, parolees placed onannual reporting status, parolees re