The US Bureau of Justice Statistics has recently made available online this report on the number of persons on probation and parole during 2000 and provides comparisons with years 1998 and 1999. The six page, .pdf-formatted report lists the number of parolees and probationers in each state, describes the race and sex makeup of these populations and reports the data as percentages as well as...
Recently released by the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, this report enumerates the more than 3.9 million men and women on probation or parole in the US at the end of 1997. The report lists the total number of parolees and probationers by region and state, scrutinizes the demographic characteristics of this record-breaking population, and compares the results with the...