NCJ Number
147391
Date Published
1993
Length
99 pages
Annotation
This document provides a 10-year (1983-92) statistical overview of female offender admissions and releases from Georgia's correctional facilities and probation caseloads. When relevant, information on Georgia's active correctional population is also provided.
Abstract
The number of female offenders starting probation annually doubled from 1983 to 1991, then dropped over 2,000 as HB1607 began to take effect. Among other provisions, HB1607 permits local supervision of misdemeanants. Incoming probationers are getting older. The average age of female offenders starting probation in 1992 was 30 years old, up from 29 in 1983. Compared to the prison population, the female probation population is more racially balanced. Probationers are apparently better educated than prison inmates. A female offender is more likely to have received probation for a property crime than for any other crime type. More than half (56 percent) of the female offenders starting probation in 1992 were serving sentences of 1 year or less. Seventy-nine percent were serving 3 years or less. Georgia's female prison admissions were steady from 1990 through 1992. More black female offenders are entering Georgia's prison population, composing approximately two- thirds of the 1992 female admission cohort. Other information on female offenders addresses probation case type; probation terminations; and inmate education, employment, substance abuse, substance abuse crime, admission type, sentence length, and prison releases. 26 tables