Offenders on Supervision

On July 31, 2003, there were 152,494 active or active-suspense offenders on community supervision.

Types of Supervision (July 31, 2003)

The majority of those on supervision in July were convicted of a property (34.9%) or violent (27.3%) offense.

In July:

• 8,277 offenders were admitted to supervision
• 2,452 successfully completed their supervision
• 3,982 had supervision revoked for a new offense (29.8%) or technical violation (70.2%)

Young Martin Tabert (right) was the unwitting catalyst behind the end to the inmate leasing system in Florida in the 1920s. See how that came about and why the practice was stopped by going to The History of Corrections on the web at www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/timeline/ 1921.html.