Average Sentence Length for those on Community Supervision on June 30, 2009, is 3.8 Years

• The majority (64.9%) of those on community supervision on June 30, 2009, were serving sentences of three years or less, with most of them falling between one and two years (32.7%).
  
  
• The average sentence length for those on community supervision on June 30, 2009, was 3.8 years.
  
  
• Those on parole on June 30, 2009, were serving the longest sentences with an average sentence length of 16.3 years, while those on addiction recovery were serving the shortest with an average of 0.6 years.
  
  
• Of the 2,097 offenders on parole, 399 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	12,753	644	490	3,202	102	1,195	22	361	10	18,779	12.0%
GT 1, LE 2 Yrs.*	35,116	6,867	2,949	5,595	241	555	10	11	3	51,347	32.7%
GT 2, LE 3 Yrs.	24,451	4,637	1,847	313	268	226	14	25	3	31,784	20.2%
GT 3, LE 4 Yrs.	9,107	1,805	1,439	44	126	100	5	15	1	12,642	8.0%
GT 4, LE 5 Yrs.	16,263	1,804	1,821	50	197	93	5	5	0	20,238	12.9%
GT 5, LE 10 Yrs.	11,670	1,126	1,431	10	369	427	4	5	4	15,046	9.6%
GT 10, LE 20 Yrs.	4,664	191	359	0	235	229	7	0	1	5,686	3.6%
GT 20, LE 30 Yrs.	696	15	29	0	51	22	3	0	0	816	0.5%
GT 30, LE 40 Yrs.	62	2	6	0	38	1	0	0	0	109	0.1%
GT 40, LE 50 Yrs.	28	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0	43	0.0%
GT 50 Yrs.	35	0	2	0	52	1	0	0	1	91	0.1%
Life	118	0	24	0	399	1	0	0	2	544	0.3%
Data Unavailable	87	1	0	0	4	4	0	0	1	97
Total	115,050	17,092	10,397	9,214	2,097	2,854	70	422	26	157,222	100.0%
Average**	3.9	3.1	4.1	1.4	16.3	3.3	4.4	0.6	8.5	3.8
Median	3	3	3	2	6	1	2	0	2	3
* 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.