After making a few attempts at getting the parole data organized in a useful summary form I hopefully have it in good order. It is on an excel spreadsheet so can be updated monthly. It could be a good item for our website.
The numbers have been carefully checked but it still is possible I made a mistake somewhere. If you see any problems please let me know. Excluded from the data is anyone in the CP or DIS category. There usually are one or two per month. My thank you to Bill Richardson for clarifying that CP stands for "continued on parole" for inmates who are out and don't get a clean bill of health yet it allows them to stop reporting to their parole officer. DIS is "discharged from parole". For our purposes neither category appears relevant to prisoners being granted or not granted parole.
The numbers for 2009 are showing an interesting pattern in that the rate of granting parole so far is running fairly consistently ahead of 2008. Also in 2008 the number of parole revocations was almost double the number of persons that were granted parole. In 2009 the number of revocations is consistently below last year and the cases where parole is being revoked trails the numbers of inmates being granted parole. The interesting question is does this reflect some differences in attitude toward granting parole and more tolerance regarding minor violations of parole conditions once inmates are released.
All for now but comments and corrections welcome.
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