Monthly Status Report October 2000 Community Supervision Population Summary

This Monthly Status Report provides a brief profile of Florida's community supervision population. The supervision population consists of all offenders on supervision through specific court placement or other assignment to a community-based program as a condition of prison release. The overall population on the last day of the month is broken down into status types:

• Active-offender is currently supervised in the community per conditions of supervision
• Active-Suspense-offender is unavailable for direct supervision, may be incarcerated, in drug treatment, hospital, etc., during supervision term, but is still monitored by a probation officer
• Out of State-Florida-offender transfers supervision to another state, the Department of Corrections continues to monitor compliance of conditions
• Absconder-offender absconds from supervision, whereabouts are unknown and court issues a warrant for violation

Supervision types are divided into Original Sentence, Post Prison Release and Other Supervision Types. As of October 31, 2000:

• 150,582 offenders on Active or Active-Suspense Community Supervision
  • 144,345 Original Sentence
  • 6,212 Post-prison Release
  • 25 Other Supervision Types
• 620 offenders on electronic monitoring
  • 252 Radio Frequency
  • 368 Global Positioning
• Region III has the highest active supervised population with 34,912 offenders
• The average probation sentence is 3.9 years (includes life sentences)

Questions pertaining to the statistics in this report or requests for additional reports should be directed to: Stacey Anderson Research Associate Bureau of Research and Data Analysis Florida Department of Corrections (850) 410-4488 anderson.stacey@mail.dc.state.fl.us More specific information about this population is available upon request.

• Active Community Supervision Offender Population Table
• Total Community Supervision Offender Population Table
• Distribution of Active Supervised Population Graph
• Offenders Tracked By Electronic Monitoring Table
• Supervision Population by Region/Circuit Table
• Community Supervision Active and Active-Suspense Offender Population by Circuit Table
• Community Supervision Active Offender Population by Circuit Table
• Violations Pending Supervision Population by Region/Circuit Table
• Offender Demographic Characteristics (Active and Active-Suspense) Table
• Offense Type by Supervision Category Table
• Distribution of Offense Categories Graph
• Supervision Sentence (in Years) By Supervision Category (Active and Active-Suspense Cases) Table
• Distribution of Felony Probation and Community Control Sentencing Graph
• Prior Commitments by Supervision Category (Active and Active-Suspense Cases) Table
• Prior Supervision Commitments Graph
• Sex Offenders by Supervision Category Table