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Nearly 2% of U.S. Adults on Parole or Probation at Year-End 2013
Loaded on Oct. 27, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry,
Parole,
Probation,
Wrongful Release.
Location:
United States of America.
According to a statistical report released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics in October 2014, there were nearly 4.8 million U.S. adults on some form of community supervision at the end of 2013. Although this amounts to about 1 in 51 members of the adult …
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