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| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT | BJS |
| Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | 202/307-0784 |
FORTY-TWO PERCENT OF STATE PAROLE DISCHARGES WERE SUCCESSFUL
WASHINGTON, D.C. - About four in every ten persons discharged from parole in 1999 had successfully completed their term of supervision in the community, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The success rate was higher among parolees who had been...
| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2003 | Contact: Stu Smith |
| 202/307-0784 |
ONE IN EVERY 32 ADULTS NOW ON PROBATION, PAROLE OR INCARCERATED
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The nation's correctional population reached a record of more than 6.7 million adult men and women by the end of 2002, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today...
| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:00 P.M. EST | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008 | Contact: Kara McCarthy: 202-307-1241 |
| WWW.OJP.GOV | After hours: 781-308-3696 |
ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WERE IN PRISON OR JAIL OR
ON PROBATION OR PAROLE IN 2007
WASHINGTON - More than 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons or jails or on probation or parole...
