Form CJ-7 2014 Annual Parole Survey

CJ-7

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BJS Annual P/P Survey
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CJ-7

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS

2014 ANNUAL PAROLE SURVEY

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GENERAL INFORMATION
If you have any questions, call the Agency Support Team, Westat, at 1-888-371-3718, or email bjs-aps@westat.com.
Please complete the questionnaire before February 28, 2015 using the web-reporting option at www.bjs-aps.org, by mailing
the completed questionnaire to WESTAT at the address above, or by faxing all pages toll-free to 1-888-371-3949.

Who is covered by this survey?
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INCLUDE all persons sentenced as adults, who were conditionally released to parole supervision, by parole board decision,
by mandatory conditional release, through other types of post-custody conditional supervision, or as the result of a sentence
to a term of supervised release. (Adults are persons subject to the jurisdiction of an adult court or correctional agency.)
INCLUDE adult parolees legally your responsibility but supervised outside your jurisdiction, such as through an interstate
compact agreement.
INCLUDE adult parolees on active supervision, including those who report electronically, or inactive supervision.
INCLUDE adult parolees under your jurisdiction regardless of supervision status or sentence length.
INCLUDE absconders who have not been discharged from parole.

Who is not covered by this survey?
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EXCLUDE juveniles (persons under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court or corrections agency).
EXCLUDE interstate compact cases supervised by your jurisdiction for another state.
EXCLUDE adult parolees supervised by your jurisdiction but legally the responsibility of another jurisdiction.

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and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this collection of
information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20531; and to the Office of Management and Budget, OMB No. XXXX-XXXX, Washington, DC 20503.

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INSTRUCTIONS
Please provide a response to each item. Blank items will be interpreted as "unknown" ("DK").
If the answer to a question is "none" or "zero," write "0" in the space provided.
If the answer to a question is "unknown," write "DK" in the space provided.
If the answer to a question is "not applicable," write "NA" in the space provided.
When an exact numeric answer is not available, provide an estimate and mark (X) in the box beside each figure.
For example 1,000 X .

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ITEMS AND DEFINITIONS

Your agency’s adult parole
population on December 31, 2013 ...........
1. On January 1, 2014, what was your agency’s
adult parole population?
Population on January 1, 2014 ..............

1. See cover page for persons to INCLUDE and
EXCLUDE.
2. Individuals entering parole more than once during the year
should be counted each time (e.g., entered, discharged, and
re-entered should be counted as two entries). Individuals who
enter parole and, without being discharged, are placed on
parole for a second offense, should be counted as one entry.

2. Between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014,
how many adults entered parole by —
a. Discretionary release from prison ......

a. Discretionary releases are persons who entered
parole as a result of a parole board decision,
Governor’s pardon, or commutation of sentence.

b. Mandatory release from prison .........
c. Reinstatement of parole ....................

b. Mandatory releases are persons who entered parole as a result
of a determinate sentencing statute or good-time provision.

d. Term of supervised release from
prison ................................................
e. Other – Specify

c. Reinstatements are persons returned to parole status,
including discharged absconders whose cases were
re-opened, revocations with immediate reinstatement, and
offenders re-paroled at anytime under the same sentence.
d. Term of supervised release are persons sentenced by
a judge to a fixed period of incarceration based on a
determinate statute, immediately followed by a period
of supervised release.

f. Not known .........................................
g. Total entries (Should equal the
sum of items 2a through 2f.) .............
3. Between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014,
how many adult parolees were discharged from
supervision for the following reasons —

3. Individuals exiting parole more than once during the year
should be counted each time (e.g., individuals who are
discharged from all parole supervision, re-enter parole, and
are fully discharged again, should be counted as two
discharges).

a. Completions ......................................
b. Returned to incarceration —
1) With new sentence ......................
2) With revocation, without
new sentence ..............................

a. Completions are parolees who served full-term
sentences or who were released early due to a parole
authority decision, commutation, or pardon.
b. 1) Parolees sent back to incarceration after
receiving a sentence for a new offense.
2) Parolees sent back to incarceration after their sentence to
parole was revoked (e.g., violating a condition of their
parole) but without receiving a sentence for a new offense.
3) Parolees incarcerated in order to receive any
type of treatment.

3) To receive treatment ...................
4) Other – Specify

4) Parolees sent back to incarceration pending a
revocation, trial, sentencing, or others.

5) Not known ...................................

5) Parolees who have been incarcerated, for whom the
reason was unknown.

c. Absconder .........................................

c. Discharged absconders who had failed to report and
could not be located.

d. Transferred to another parole agency..

d. Parolees transferred to another agency if they are no
longer in your record system.
f. Specify type of discharge within the categories of
other completions, unsatisfactory, and other.

e. Death .................................................
f. Other discharges – Specify each
1) Other completions

1) Other completions are those which did not fully
meet the definition of item 3a.
2) Unsatisfactory discharges are those parolees who did
not fulfill all conditions of their supervision or violated
the conditions of their supervision but were not
returned to incarceration (e.g. revocation with
immediate reinstatement). Exclude absconders (item
3c).

2) Unsatisfactory

3) Other
g. Not known ......................................... . . . . . . . . .
h. Total discharges (Should equal
the sum of items 3a through 3g.) ......
4. On December 31, 2014, what was your agency’s
adult parole population?
(Should equal Question 1 plus item 2g minus item 3h.)

4. The count of adult parolees at yearend 2014. This
total should equal the population on January 1, plus
the total entering parole in 2014, minus the total
discharged from parole in 2014. (See cover page for
persons to INCLUDE and EXCLUDE.)

Population on December 31, 2014 .........
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10. On December 31, 2014, how many adult
parolees in your jurisdiction were —
(See race/ethnicity definitions on Page 5.)

5. Does the total parole population on
December 31, 2014 (reported in Question 4)
represent a count of individuals or cases?
(Please mark (X) in one box.)
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Individuals

2

Cases

a. White (not of Hispanic origin) ............
b. Black or African American
(not of Hispanic origin) .......................
c. Hispanic or Latino ...........................

6. On December 31, 2014, were any adult parolees
legally your responsibility being supervised by
another state through an interstate compact
agreement?

d. American Indian/Alaska
Native (not of Hispanic origin) ...........
e. Asian (not of Hispanic origin) ............

 Include parolees SENT to another state.
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2

Yes —
a. How many adult parolees
legally your responsibility
were supervised by
another state? ...........................
b. Are these parolees
included in Question 4?

f. Native Hawaiian/Other
Pacific Islander (not of
Hispanic origin) ..................................
g. Two or more races (not of
Hispanic origin) ..................................
Yes

h. Additional categories in your
information system – Specify

No

No

7. Does the total parole population on
December 31, 2014, (reported in Question 4) include
interstate compact cases supervised by your agency
for another state that could not be excluded from the
total?
1

2

Yes —
a. How many adult parolees
were being supervised by
your agency for another state
that could not be excluded
from the total? ...........................

i. Not known.....................................
j. Total (Sum of items 10a through
10i should equal Question 4.) ...........
11. On December 31, 2014, how many adult parolees
had as their most serious offense —
a. Sex offense
(Include any forcible or nonforcible
sex act. Exclude prostitution,
commercialized vice, and offenses
reported in 11b.) ...............................

No

b. Other violent offense
(Include murder, manslaughter, robbery,
kidnapping, assault, and other violent
offenses. Exclude sex offenses
reported in item 11a.)……………….

8. On December 31, 2014, how many adult
parolees had a maximum sentence to
incarceration of —
a. A year or less ...................................

c. Property offense
(Include burglary, larceny,
motor vehicle theft, fraud,
and other property offenses.) ............
d. Drug offense
(Include unlawful possession, sale,
use, distribution, importation,
growing, or manufacturing of
narcotic drugs.) .................................

b. More than a year ..............................
c. Not known ........................................
d. Total (Sum of items 8a through 8c
should equal Question 4.) .................. . . . . .
9. On December 31, 2014, how many adult
parolees in your jurisdiction were —

e. Weapon offense ...............................
f. Other offense – Specify

a. Male ..................................................
b. Female ..............................................

g. Not known .......................................
h. Total (Sum of items 11a through 11g
should equal Question 4.) .................

c. Not known ........................................
d. Total (Sum of items 9a through 9c
should equal Question 4.) .................

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12. On December 31, 2014, how many adult parolees
supervised by your agency had a status of —
 Exclude parolees supervised by your
agency for another state through an
interstate compact agreement or by
your jurisdiction but legally the
responsibility of another jurisdiction.

14. On December 31, 2014, how many of the adult
parolees in your jurisdiction were being
supervised following —
a. Discretionary release from prison
(Persons who entered supervision
as a result of a parole board
decision, Governor’s pardon,
or commutation of sentence.) ...........

a. Active (Those required to regularly
contact a supervisory parole authority
in person, by mail, by telephone, or
electronically. Exclude those reported
in items 12b-12e.) ...............................

b. Mandatory release from prison
(Persons who entered supervision
as a result of a determinate
sentencing statute or good-time
provision.) .........................................

b. Only have financial conditions remaining
(Exclude those reported
in items 12a and 12c-12e.) ..................

c. Special conditional release from prison
(e.g., medical release, early
release for the terminally ill,
other special release.) ......................

c. Inactive
(Exclude those reported in items
12a, 12b, 12d, and 12e.) ......................
d. Absconder
(Include those still on parole but have
failed to report and cannot be located.
Exclude those reported in items 12a12c and 12e.) ......................................

d. Term of supervised release from prison
(Persons who entered as the result of a sentence
by a judge to a fixed period of incarceration
based on a determinate statute,
immediately followed by a fixed
period of supervised release.) ..........

e. Supervised out of state
(Include active and inactive parolees
under your jurisdiction who are
supervised by authorities of another
state. Exclude those reported in
items 12a-12d.) ...................................

e. Other – Specify

f. Other – Specify

f. Not known ........................................
g. Total (Sum of items 14a through 14f
should equal Question 4.).................

g. Not known ..........................................
h. Total (Sum of items 12a through 12g
should equal Question 4.) ...................
13. Does the total parole population on December 31,
2014 (reported in Question 4) include any persons
who were also under probation supervision, or who
were held in jail, prison, or a U.S. Bureau of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
holding facility?

15. Does the total parole population on December 31,
2014, (reported in Question 4) include any
parolees who had their location tracked through a
Global Positioning System (GPS), either directly by
your agency or through a contract?
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b. How many of the parolees
reported in item 15a (above)
were sex offenders? ................

Yes —
a. How many were also on
probation supervision? ................

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Yes —
a. How many parolees were
tracked using GPS? .................

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No

b. How many were in local
jails? (Include evening
confinements.) ............................
c. How many were in a state
or federal prison?........................
d. How many were in an ICE
holding facility? ...........................
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No

Notes and comments – (Please attach additional notes if necessary. Please explain changes in how data are reported compared
with last year.)

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Race/ethnicity definitions for Question 10.
a. White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
b. Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
c. Hispanic or Latino. A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish
culture or origin, regardless of race.
d. American Indian or Alaska Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South
America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
e. Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian
subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine
Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
f.

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii,
Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

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