Report: Georgia leads country in most people on probation
March 3, 2009 at 11:36 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsPew Center on the States Report also says one out of every 13 adults in Georgia is behind bars.
The five states with the highest rate of adults under correctional supervision were Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio. Those with lowest rates were New Hampshire, Maine, West Virginia, Utah and North Dakota.
Georgia, although only the ninth most populous state, had more people on probation in 2007 – 435,631 – than any other state, according to the report. The state Department of Corrections said the number might be inflated by double-counting of some offenders, but it has previously acknowledged that its probation population is the highest per capita in the country.
One consequence, according to the department, is that Georgia probation officers have had a caseload far higher than the national average.
(Hat tip to Victor Jones)
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