ABSTRACT
As correctional institutions continue to operate at capacity, the need to find additional ways to reduce inmate populations has become even more critical. Postconfinement release programs leading to sentence reduction, release, and postconfinement supervision operate across the nation. At year-end 2008, 5,095,200 adult men and women were under some type of federal, state, local, or privately contracted nonconfinement correctional alternative. That is the equivalent of about 1 in every 45 adults in the United States. Parolees accounted for only a small percentage of offenders under community supervision, 828,169 or 16%.1
