50 State Reports
Supervision Violation Data Snapshot
States across the country saw changes in their prison admissions and populations due to supervision violations in 2020. But some states were already experiencing reductions in violation admissions and population prior to the pandemic. This snapshot shows available supervision violation data for Connecticut from 2018 through 2020.
From 2018 to 2020, Connecticut saw a 49 percent decline in the number of prison admissions due to supervision violations.
The breakdown
| Total Admissions | Violation Admissions | Technical Violation Admissions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 21018 | 1981 | 294 |
| 2019 | 19535 | 1895 | 290 |
| 2020 | 10699 | 1011 | 192 |
| Total | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total admissions | 21,018 | 19,535 | 10,699 | |
| Total Violation admissions | 1,981 | 1,895 | 1,011 | |
| Probation admissions | 767 | 747 | 214 | |
| Parole admissions | 1,214 | 1,148 | 797 | |
| Total Technical Violation admissions | 294 | 290 | 192 | |
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| Parole admissions | 294 | 290 | 192 | |
| Total New Offense admissions | 920 | 858 | 605 | |
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| Parole admissions | 920 | 858 | 605 | |
Connecticut did not provide data for prison population due to supervision violations.
The breakdown
| Total Population | Violation Population | Technical Violation Population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 13366 | ||
| 2019 | 13100 | ||
| 2020 | 9111 |
| Total | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
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| Total population | 13,366 | 13,100 | 9,111 | |
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Additional State Notes
For admissions, Connecticut did not provide data for technical probation and new offense probation violations. The state also only provided overall population data, not supervision violation data for the prison population. Admissions include people incarcerated pretrial, as Connecticut is a unified state where the state has jurisdiction over people incarcerated in both jail and prison. While probation is administered by Court Support Services, data on admissions due to probation violations were provided by the Department of Correction (DOC). Court Support Services also provided these data, but the numbers did not correlate directly to prison admissions and may have reflected over-counting of admissions due to violations, so the more conservative estimate (provided by the DOC) was used.
Prison admissions due to parole violations include short incarceration stays in state-funded custody (1- to 180-day sanctions). These admissions do not include all types of parole (e.g., Returns Without Prejudice, people on parole but located in another state also known as Parcom are excluded); admissions due to technical parole violations do not include people who failed to appear for custody at their appointed time. The DOC probation violation counts include only people who receive a new sentence of probation violation each year.
Technical parole violations may include people who ultimately receive a new felony conviction.
Whether an incarceration is the result of a new offense or technical violation is often difficult and problematic to delineate, even in states with available data. Most states do not consider a supervision violation to be the result of a new offense unless a new felony conviction is present, meaning technical violations may include misdemeanor convictions or new arrests. "Prison" includes county jail if the county was reimbursed by the state for a person’s incarceration, which occurs in some, but not all, states. Supervision violations may include revocations (i.e., unsuccessful terminations of a supervision and completion of a sentence in prison or jail) or short-term sanctions (i.e., probation or parole jurisdiction is maintained and the person is incarcerated for a short period of time in prison or jail). Not all states impose or include short-term sanctions in their count of supervision violations.