Executive Summary

This report covers the time period from July 1, 1993 through June 30, 2001. Data are reported in sections: demographics, workload, outcomes and absconders. Each section includes an executive summary and sub-sections on each supervision/monitoring type. In the outcomes sections comparisons are made between types of supervision / monitoring as well as by type of offender within a supervision / monitoring type.

Some significant findings regarding Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring include:

• The majority of offenders placed on GPS during FY2000-01 are categorized as violent and more than half had at least one prior placement on Community Control, Radio Frequency (RF) Monitoring or GPS.
• Violent offenders had a higher successful completion rate (16.2%) within one year of placement on GPS than other types of offenders.
• Over one-third (34.5%) of sex offenders on GPS are still active after one year.
• After one year on GPS, the percentage of revocations for sex offenders (14.0%) is much smaller than for other offenders (26.8%), however, the majority of all revocations are for technical violations.
• The rate of absconding after two years was lowest for GPS (1.5%) compared to Community Control (3.5%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (4.6%).
• No sex offenders absconded within two years of placement on GPS.
• Over two-thirds (68.1%) of sex offenders received reduced sentences compared to 41.0% of all other offenders on GPS.
• After two years on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring, 26.7% of sex offenders were changed to GPS compared to only 2.3% of other offenders.

Salient points concerning the demographic breakdown of program participants by gender, race and age for new placements in Fiscal Year 2000-01 are as follows:

• Chart 1A: The ratio of male offenders to female offenders is greatest for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (88.0% male). Female offenders were more likely to be placed on Community Control (21.9% of total offenders) or Radio Frequency (17.7% of total offenders) than GPS (12.0% of total offenders).
• Chart 1B: Black offenders comprised just slightly more than 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 (33.6%), Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (34.1%) and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (26.9%). 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 (33.8%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (19.2%). Offenders placed for sexual offenses comprised the largest group for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (37.0%).
• Chart 1D: Offenders placed on Community Control are predominately drug (33.7%) and property (30.6%) offenders; those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring are mostly violent offenders (41.2%); and those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) are predominately violent offenders (62.3%).
• Table 1C: Over one-third (39.9%) of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring are sex offenders compared to 15.8% on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and 3.8% 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 FY 1999-00 and an increase in FY 2000-01. The number of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring increased from 672 in FY 1999-00 to 985 in FY 2000-01.
• Table 1D: More than half (54.4%) 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.

Chart 1F: One-Year outcomes for those placed during FY1999-00:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (31.6%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is reduced sentence (29.2%).
• While many offenders are still active (27.3%) after a year, the most common outcome for those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring is reduced sentence (24.5%).

Chart 1G: Two-Year outcomes for those placed during FY1998-99:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (43.4%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is successful completion (28.9%) with another 27.1% receiving a reduced sentence.

• The majority of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receive a reduced sentence within two years (60.4%).