Executive Summary

This report covers the time period from July 1, 1993, through June 30, 2002. 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 FY2001-02 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 (13.0%) within two years of placement on GPS than other types of offenders.
• Over one-third (36.3%) of sex offenders on GPS are still active after one year.
• After one year on GPS, the percentage of revocations for sex offenders (16.4%) is much smaller than for other offenders (21.9%); however, the majority of all revocations are for technical violations.
• The rate of absconding after two years was lowest for GPS (0.8%) compared to Community Control (3.0%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (2.0%).
• Less than one percent of sex offenders absconded within two years of placement on GPS.
• More sex offenders (42.1%) received reduced sentences, compared to 33.8% of all other offenders on GPS.
• After two years on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring, 31.9% of sex offenders were changed to GPS compared to only 4.7% of other offenders.

Salient points concerning the demographic breakdown of program participants by gender, race and age for new placements in Fiscal Year 2001-02 are as follows:

• Chart 1A: The ratio of male offenders to female offenders is greatest for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (85.6% male). Female offenders were more likely to be placed on Community Control (21.2% of total offenders) or Radio Frequency (17.5% of total offenders) than GPS (14.4% of total offenders).
• Chart 1B: Black offenders comprised just slightly more than one-third of placements to Community Control (38.9%), Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (34.8%) and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (38.0%).

• Table 1A: The 18-24 age group comprised the largest percentage of placements on Community Control (34.5%), Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (36.4%) and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (29.0%). Those under 18 and over 40 had the smallest number of placements in all three programs.

• Table 1B: Offenders placed for a drug offense comprised the largest group for both Community Control (33.8%) and Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring (22.6%). Offenders placed for sexual offenses comprised the largest group for Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring (29.1%).
• Chart 1D: Offenders placed on Community Control are predominately drug (33.8%) and property (31.4%) offenders; those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring are mostly violent offenders (34.8%); and those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) are predominately violent offenders (58.2%).
• Table 1C: Approximately one-third (32.6%) of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring are sex offenders compared to 11.6% on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring and 3.6% on Community Control.
• Chart 1E: While placements on Community Control have remained fairly constant over the past five years, there was a slight increase in the number of offenders placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring in FY 2000-01 and a decline in FY 2001-02. The number of offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring increased from 985 in FY 2000-01 to 1,053 in FY 2001-02.
• Table 1D: More than half (51.2%) 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 FY2000-01:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (31.4%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is reduced sentence (25.5%).
• While many offenders are still active (25.3%) after a year, the most common outcome for those placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) monitoring is reduced sentence (25.8%).

Chart 1G: Two-Year outcomes for those placed during FY1999-00:

• The most common outcome for those placed on Community Control is revocation (42.0%).
• The most common outcome for those placed on Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring is reduced sentence (32.7%), with another 24.9% having a successful completion.

• The most common outcome within two years for offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) is a reduced sentence (37.8%).

Chart 1G and Chart 1I: Average Time to Failure by Fiscal Year:

• On average, offenders placed on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) have a longer time from placement to failure than Radio Frequency (RF) or Community Control.