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Big new US Sentencing Commission report on federal supervised release

By Douglas A. Berman

I was intrigued and pleased to come across on the US Sentencing Commission's website this long new report from the USSC titled simply "Federal Offenders Sentenced to Supervised Release." Here is an excerpts from the report's introduction and conclusion: This report addresses the legal framework and most common legal issues that arise in regard to supervised release and analyzes data concerning the imposition, modification, and revocation of supervised release terms. In 1984, as part of the Sentencing Reform Act (?SRA?) that created the federal sentencing guidelines system, Congress prospectively eliminated parole and established supervised release.  Supervised release is a ?unique? type of post-confinement monitoring that is overseen by federal district courts with the assistance of federal probation officers, rather than by the United States Parole Commission...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).