Executive Summary

This report covers the time period from July 1, 1993 through June 30, 2000. Data are reported in sections: demographics, workload, outcomes and absconders. Each section includes an executive summary and sub-sections on each supervision/monitoring type.

Salient points concerning the demographic breakdown of program participants by gender, race and age for new placements in Fiscal Year 1999-00 are as follows:

• Chart 1A: The ratio of male offenders to female offenders is greatest for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (89% male). Female offenders were more likely to be placed on Community Control (21.1% of total offenders) or Radio Frequency (19.4% of total offenders) than GPS (11.0% of total offenders).
• Chart 1B: Black offenders comprised approximately one-third of placements to Community Control, Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring.
• Table 1A: The 18-24 age group comprised the largest percentage of placements on Community Control (31.9%) Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (31.6%) and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (25.7%). Those under 18 and over 40 had the smallest number of placements in all three programs.
• Table 1B: Offenders placed for drug offense comprised the largest group for both Community Control (25.6%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (21.5%). Offenders placed for sexual offenses comprised the largest group for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (40.7%).
• Chart 1C: Offenders placed on Community Control are predominately drug offenders (35.6%); those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring are predominately property offenders (47.7%); and those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) are predominately violent offenders (69.9%).
• Chart 1D: Nearly half (45.8%) of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring are sex offenders compared to 14.2% on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and 4.4% on Community Control.
• Chart 1E: While placements on Community Control have remained fairly constant over the past five years, there was a sharp decline in the number of offenders placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring in FY1999-00 and a marked increase in the number of placements on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring.
• Table 1C: Over half (59.7%) of those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring had at least one prior placement on Community Control, Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and/or Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring. This number was much smaller for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (41.7%) and Community Control (19.0%).

Chart 1F: One-Year outcomes for those placed during FY1998-99:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (32.4%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is successful completion (27.3%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring is reduced sentence (36.4%).

Chart 1G: Two-Year outcomes for those placed during FY1997-98:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (44.3%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is reduced sentence (31.0%) with successful completion just slightly less (29.7%).
• There are too few cases to cite meaningful information for two year outcomes for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring. A two year outcome follow-up will be possible for placements in FY1998-99 (129 cases) in July 2001.