Reentry Trends in the United States

• NCJ Number: 197334
• Date Published: October 2002
• Length: 31 pages
• Corporate Author: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• Publication Type: Statistics; Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Electronic document only. Part of the Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities Series. The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. BJS collects, analyzes, and disseminates reliable and valid statistics on crime and justice systems in the United States, supports improvements to state and local criminal justice information systems, and participates with national and international organizations to develop and recommend national standards for justice statistics.

Annotation

This printable version of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Reentry Trends in the United States website section summarizes the latest BJS data concerning inmates returning to the community after serving time in State or Federal prison.

Abstract

This printable version of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Reentry Trends in the United States website section summarizes the latest BJS data concerning inmates returning to the community after serving time in State or Federal prison. Highlights of this document include: 1) at least 95% of all State prisoners will be released from prison at some point; nearly 80% will be released to parole supervision; 2) at yearend 2002, 1,440,655 prisoners were under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities; 3) in 2001, about 592,000 State prison inmates were released to the community after serving time in prison; 4) nearly 33% of State prison releases in 1999 were drug offenders, 25% were violent offenders and 31% were property offenders; 5) 670,169 adults were under State parole supervision at yearend 2002; 7) by the end of 2000, 16 States had abolished discretionary release from prison by a parole board for all offenders; and 8) among State parole discharges in 2000, 41% successfully completed their term of supervision; relatively unchanged since 1990.