Gender-Responsive Supervision and Programming for Women Offenders in the Community

Women con tinue to rep re sent a grow ing per cent age of cor rec tional popu la tions na tion wide. The vast ma jor ity of these women are un der com mu nity su per vi sion (pro ba tion or pa role). In 1998, nearly 1 mil lion women were un der cor rec tional su per vi sion in the United States. Of those, 85 per cent, or over 800,000 women, were on pro ba tion or pa role (Bu reau of Jus tice Sta tis tics, 1999a). Be tween 1990 and 1998, the per cap ita number of women un der pro ba tion su per vi sion rose 40 per cent and the per cap ita number of women un der pa role su per vi sion was up 80 per cent (BJS, 1999a; BJS, 1999b).