Average Sentence Length for those on Community Supervision on June 30, 2008 is 3.8 Years

• The majority (66.1%) of those on community supervision on June 30, 2008 were serving sentences of three years or less, with most of them falling between one and two years (34.2%).
  
  
• The average sentence length for those on community supervision on June 30, 2008 was 3.8 years.
  
  
• Those on parole on June 30, 2007 were serving the longest sentences with an average sentence length of 16.8 years, while those on addiction recovery were serving the shortest with an average of 0.5 years.
  
  
• Of the 2,090 offenders on parole, 403 are serving life sentences on parole.

Sentence Length
Category	Original Sentence				Post-Prison Release					Total	Percent
Primary Offense	Probation	Drug Offender Probation	Community Control	Pretrial Intervention	Parole	Conditional Release	Control Release	Addiction Recovery	Other Post-Prison Release
1 Year or Less	12,807	619	593	3,273	92	1,105	25	393	9	18,916	12.0%
GT 1, LE 2 Yrs.*	37,261	7,489	2,974	5,598	248	492	11	7	4	54,084	34.2%
GT 2, LE 3 Yrs.	23,881	5,117	1,847	203	251	129	18	23	2	31,471	19.9%
GT 3, LE 4 Yrs.	8,563	1,879	1,389	40	140	98	5	12	1	12,127	7.7%
GT 4, LE 5 Yrs.	15,784	1,835	1,736	35	188	90	5	5	0	19,678	12.5%
GT 5, LE 10 Yrs.	11,291	1,040	1,356	10	347	428	4	4	3	14,483	9.2%
GT 10, LE 20 Yrs.	4,612	188	354	0	240	178	11	0	1	5,584	3.5%
GT 20, LE 30 Yrs.	666	15	27	0	64	16	4	0	0	792	0.5%
GT 30, LE 40 Yrs.	62	2	5	0	39	0	0	0	0	108	0.1%
GT 40, LE 50 Yrs.	31	1	0	0	15	0	1	0	0	48	0.0%
GT 50 Yrs.	37	0	2	0	58	2	0	0	1	100	0.1%
Life	125	0	13	0	403	1	0	0	1	543	0.3%
Data Unavailable	123	3	1	3	5	7	0	3	0	145
TOTAL	115,243	18,188	10,297	9,162	2,090	2,546	84	447	22	158,079	100.0%
Average**	3.9	3	4	1.4	16.8	3.3	5.3	0.5	7.2	3.8
Median	3	2.5	3	1.5	6.4	1.3	2.3	0.2	1.5	2.5
* GT = greater than and LE = less than or equal to **Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, and life are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.