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December 2007
 Probation & Parole in the United States,
2006
The number of adult men and women in the United States
who were being supervised on probation or parole at the
end of 2006 reached 5,035,225, up from 3,757,282 on
December 31, 1995. This information was collected in the
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 2006 Annual Probation
Survey and 2006 Annual Parole Survey.
Probationers are criminal offenders who have been sentenced to a period of correctional supervision in the community
in lieu of incarceration. Parole is a period of conditional
supervised release following a prison term.
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