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| Female Parolees Less Likely to Return |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/15/2001 |
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Female and elderly parolees released from state prisons were much more likely to avoid heading back behind bars than their male and youthful counterparts, the Justice Department said recently. But the overall percentage of state prison parolees who are reincarcerated the same year of their release did not change significantly between 1990 and 2000, concluded the Bureau of Justice Statistics report on trends during the decade. Of the 410,613 state prison inmates released from parole supervision in 1999, 42 percent stayed out through the end of the year, while 43 percent were sent back behind bars for new violations in 1999 and 10 percent fled, the report said. Criminal justice experts say figures that focus only on the first year of release vastly underestimate the number who will eventually be reincarcerated. The success rate for women in 1999 was 48 percent, compared with 39 percent for men. Meanwhile, 55 percent of those over 55 years old released from parole in 1999 stayed out of prison, compared with 36 percent of those between 18 and 24, the report said. Those released from prison by the discretionary decision of a parole board also had much better success rates than those who left prison after a set period mandated by law. By the end of 2000, 15 states had abolished discretionary releases for all offenders, and another five outlawed them for certain violent offenses. Growth in the parole population slowed through the 1990s, with the total reaching 652,199 by the end of 2000. |
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