Roughly one in every 31 adults in America is currently in the corrections system and one in every 100 adults in America is incarcerated. In 1982, there were approximately 2.2 million offenders in the United States. Over 20 years later, the prison population has skyrocketed by more than 300 percent to over 7.3 million offenders. Today, there are more than 5 million adult men and women under federal, state or local probation or parole jurisdiction: approximately 4,293,163 on probation and 824,365 on parole. SecureAlert’s offender monitoring solution provides a cost-effective and technically superior way for corrections officers to monitor those parolees and probationers who need constant supervision.

• One in every 100 adults are incarcerated
• The average cost of keeping an offender in jail or prison is over $78 per day
• Operational costs for Jails and Prisons account for roughly 77% of the average correctional budget

PRE-TRIAL RELEASE

• In the 75 largest counties in the United States, 32% of defendants were released on bail while 40% were denied bail
• In the United States there is an estimated 900,000 defendants, 300,000 of which are incarcerated while awating trial
• Close to one-quarter of released felons fail to appear at trial
• Nearly 30% of  all felons who failed to appear in court remain fugitives for at least 1 year
• When a defendant fails to appear in court, the social and budgetary cost is approximately $8,500 per defendant

SEX OFFENDERS

• Sex Offenders are four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after being released from prison
• There are over 165 state and federal laws that place restrictions on sex offenders; 21 of these laws restrict where the offender can live; 59 of these laws prohibit the offender from being near schools

GANGS

• It is estimated that more than 24,500 gangs were active in the U.S.
• It is estimated that 772,500 people in the U.S. were members of gangs
• In 2001, 59% of all homicides in Los Angeles and 53% in Chicago were gang-related

JUVENILES

• 50-70% of previously confined youth are rearrested within 1 to 2 years after their release
• The cost of detention ranges from $87 per day to $178 per day
• By keeping juveniles out of detention facilities, recidivism rates drop by approximately 26%