Federal Offenders Sentenced to Supervised Release

摘要

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. A sentencing court is authorized (and, in some cases, required) to impose a term of supervised release in addition to a term of imprisonment. While on supervised release after reentry into the community following release from imprisonment, an offender is required to abide by certain conditions, some mandated by statute and others imposed at the court's discretion.