Assignment:
The Montana Legislature's Interim Justice Committee wants to know if the Montana Department of Corrections has final information regarding the success or failure of an early conditional release program done in 2005. Specifically, they want to know how did the early conditional release offenders compare to traditional release offenders with regard to demographics and recidivism including how many were returned to prison, how many returned with a new conviction, and how long it took to fail?. State Senator Frederick Milquetoast and Representative Fitzpatrick Mahoney have asked the DOC for a memo updating them on these matters, and you, as the Chief Analyst for the DOC, have been tasked with creating this memo. Using the most recent data, your staff created the following raw table that summarizes the data for the memo.
Variable TPC (n = 2,365) CRC (n = 1,589) TPP (n = 1,250) CRP(n = 464)
Male 82.2% 74.9% 89.0% 83.0%
Mean Release Age 35.0 34.1 37.6 34.1
Native American 16.7% 16.7% 15.9% 23.9%
Total Returned 34.2% 37.7% 35.3% 25.2%
Returned New Conviction 5.5% 5.3% 5.4% 5.8%
Mean Days to Failure 284.6 221.5 288.8 226.7
Median Days to Failure 197 184 206 155
TPC = Traditional Parole from Community, CRC = Conditional Release from Community TPP = Traditional Parole from Prison, CRP = Conditional Release from Prison
Write a formal summary of your findings following guidelines using the appropriate charts or tables to answer the questions regarding the demographic and recidivism statistics