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

-----------~-~---~-------Sourcebook of Criminol Justice Statistics 1983Table 1.41 Workload of Federal probation officers, years ending June 30, 1972-82NJTE: Persons under supervision of the FederalProbation System include persons pi aced onprobation--either by U.S. District Courts, U.S.magistrates, or at the request of U.S. attorneys(deferred prosecution)--and Federal offendersreleased from confinement on parole ormandatary release. A Federal prisoner is eligiblefor mandatory release when the prisoner hasserved the full term of imprisonment less "goodtime"allowances. If the offender has earnedmore than 180 days of "good-time" credit,supervision (as if on parole) is for that period inexcess of 180 days. If "good-time" is less than180 days, release occurs without supervision.OfficersYears Probation required forending officer Presentence presentenceJune 30 positions investigations Investigation1972 549 27,558 2151973 717 29,736 2321974 1,057 29,492 2301975 1,377 31,740 2481976 1,452 32,193 2521977 1,578 26,678 2321978 1,604 27,278 2131979 1,604 27,409 2141980 1,604 23,961 1871981 1,534 24,957 1951982 I ,534 27,463 215The number of officers required forpresentence investi got Ions was der i ved bydividing the number of presentence inVestigationsby 128, which according to a time study is thenumber of presentence investigations one officercould produce in I year. The number of officersavailable for supervision was derived bysubtracting the number of officere required forpresentence investigations from the number ofprobation officer positions. (This explanationwas provided by the Administrative Office of theLhited States Courts, Division of Probation.)OfficersAverageavailable forsupervisionSupervisioncasessupervisioncases per officer334 49,023 147485 54,346 1/2827 59,615 721,129 64,261 571,200 64,246 541,346 64,427 481,391 66,681 481,390 66,087 481;417 64,450 451,339 59,016 441,319 58,373 44Source: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Annual Report of the Director, 1977(Preliminary Report), p. 19; 1981, p. 14, Table 17; 1982, p. 19, Table 19 (Washington, D.C.:Administrative Office of the Unitec!States Courts). Table adapted by S.Nt>. Nt>. N'-\Collateral investigation foranother district8,470 9,203 11,932 14,526 16,483 17,476 16,506 16,836 18,502 21,233Preliminary investigation toassist U.S. cttorney632 862 953 1,645 2,022 2,137 3,102 2,006 2,167 2,158Postsentence investigationfor institution553 658 650 746 1,043 1,661 1,252 988 1,012 919Pretransfer investigation(probation and parole)7,650 8,603 9,870 10,583 10,568 10,073 9,944 9,561 8,928 8,256Alleged violation investigation(probation and parole)5,895 6,630 8,581 10,351 10,810 10,813 II ,421 12,347 12,584 12,241Prerelease invE'.stigation for aFederal or military institution 6,780 6,%5 8,805 7,1/2 7,089 8,3% 9,092 9,883 8,097 6,9%Special investigation regardinga prisoner in confinement2,921 4,628 6,010 5,085 5,478 5,838 4,932 5,684 6,021 5,755Furlough and work-release reportsfor Bureau of Prisons institutions 556 1,140 2,770 3,175 5,460 5,721 6,239 5,925 5,920 5,301Parole supervision reports5,187 5,895 7,030 12,931 8,846 8,828 17,284 21,824 23,066 21,898Parole revocation hearing reports 965 1,127 1,320 1,732 1,188 1,254 1,834 1,522 1,884 1,')09BailNt>. Nt>. Nt>. Nt>. Nt>. Nt>. 1,036 921 1,639 I,SI3Collateral bailNt>.Nt>.Nt>. Nt>.Nt>.Nt>. 192 220 502 1142Source: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Annual Report of the Director, 1974, p. VII-3; 1976 (PreliminaryReport), p. 16; 1978 (Preliminary Report), p. 16; 1980, p. IS, Table 18; 1981, p~ 14, Table 18; 1982, p. 20 (Washington, D.C.:Administrative Office of the United States Caurts):-Table adapted by S