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Further Analysis of Recent Criminal Justice System Data Presented to the Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission May 28, 2020 Criminal arrests dropped 54%, with infractions and motor vehicle arrests falling by larger percentages. Criminal

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Further Analysis of Recent Criminal Justice System Data Presented to the Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission May 28, 2020

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Criminal arrests dropped 54%, with infractions and motor vehicle arrests falling by larger percentages.

Source: Criminal Record and Motor Vehicle System data and OPM Monthly Indicators Reports.

Criminal arrests, infractions, and motor vehicle arrests, January to April 2020 5,918 6,198 4,672 5,396 5,408 4,526 5,041 5,209 3,447

2,734 1,927 844

1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000

Criminal Arrest Infraction Motor Vehicle Arrest

–54% –69% –82%

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Pretrial admissions to the DOC shrank 73% between February and April, with a slight uptick anticipated in May.

116 91 93 79 77 76 49 63 59 103 247 249 274 241 229 286

50 100 150 200 250 300

17 10 May 3 26 19 12

Apr. 5

29 22 15 8

Mar. 1

23 16 9

Feb. 2

Number of pretrial admissions to the DOC each week, February 2 – May 17 19 2020.

1,030 Feb. 721 Mar. 281 Apr.

Number of Pretrial Admits to DOC each Month

Source: DOC population data provided to OPM CJPPD.

*Data from the week of May 24 is not yet included.

300* May

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Discretionary releases from DOC increased further in April, drastically reducing the number of end-of-sentence discharges.

Source: CT DOC. Excludes exits to special parole. The DOC is legally required to release an inmate in its custody at the conclusion of their court-stipulated sentence 354 319 339 284 237 149 344 411 425 303 522 545

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800

Feb 2019 Mar Apr Feb 2020 Mar Apr

51% 44% 44% 48% 31% 21% 49% 56% 56% 52% 69% 79%

Feb 2019 Mar Apr Feb 2020 Mar Apr

Releases from DOC sentenced pop. by discretionary release vs. end-of-sentence discharge, by absolute number and percent, Feb. to Apr. 2019 and 2020

End-of-Sentence (EOS) Discretionary Release

The number of discretionary releases increased 28% between April 2019 and 2020 (425 to 545).

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In April 2020, 79% of people returned to the community with supervision under a discretionary release mechanism, up 23 points from April 2019 (56% to 79%).

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The increase in 2020 in discretionary releases helped reduce the number of people released from DOC with no community supervision (an EOS discharge).

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More people receiving discretionary release had longer amounts of time left to serve on their sentence in April 2020 than the previous year.

Source: CT DOC and The CT Open Data Portal. The small number of cases in the three lowest subgroups can cause the percent change to be exaggerated. For example, there was a 17% increase in the 1-week-to 2-week subgroup from April 2019 to 2020 even though the difference was only one person in absolute terms 4 6 7 30 28 42 47 146 162 197 297

50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Apr. 2019
Apr. 2020

< 1 week 1 week to 2 weeks 2 weeks to 1 month 1 month to 2 months 2 months to 6 months more than 6 months

Time left on sentences at the time of release, people receiving discretionary release in April 2019 and 2020

51% increase

In discretionary releases for people with six months or more left on their sentence.

(197 and 297 in April 2019 and 2020)

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Source: CT DOC data presented in May Monthly Indicators Report. Excludes release to nursing home and special parole releases as well as end-of-sentence discharges.

Criminal justice agencies tailored use of discretionary-release mechanisms while responding to the public-health emergency.

66 19 42 63 9 41 66 3 46 74 12 63 119 116 97

20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Transfer Parole Furlough Transitional Placement

1017 989 988 971 732

200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200

Halfway House

Discretionary releases from DOC to transfer parole, furlough, transitional placement, and halfway house, January to May 2020

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Source: OPM CJPPD “Date-Filtered Daily Count Data” and Open Data

Portal. . “Sentenced” category includes people serving a term of

incarceration imposed by a Connecticut criminal court. “Pretrial” includes defendant held on bond, awaiting disposition of pending charges.

Since March 1, the correction population has fallen 15 percent.

0% 2%

Mar. 1
Mar. 15
Apr. 1
Apr. 15

May 1 May 15 May 22

Percent change in the pretrial and sentenced populations in DOC from March 1, to May 22, 2020

Pretrial –9% Sentenced –17% Total –15%

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Connecticut’s correction population has returned to May 1991 levels.

Source: DOC population data provided to OPM CJPPD. “Other” includes special parole remandees and inmates incarcerated at CT DOC from other jurisdictions.

Correction population by sentenced, pretrial, and other, March 1 to May 22, 2020

Correction Group March 1 May 22 % Change Net Change Sentenced 9,036 7,480 –17% –1,556 Pretrial 3,049 2,765 –9% –284 Other 324 254 –22% –70 Total 12,409 10,499 –15% –1,910

Connecticut’s recent correction population decrease is the size of the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, New England’s most populous correction facility.

(March 1 to May 22, 2020)

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Connecticut currently has had the sixth-largest correction population drop during the COVID-19 public-health emergency among 40 other states and the federal system.

Source: Prison Policy Initiative. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/05/14/jails-vs-prison-update/. Incorporates counts collected

by the Vera Institute of Justice: https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/people-in-prison-in-2019.pdf

Connecticut had the 6th largest prison population decrease across state systems

10.7%
20%
15%
10%
5%

Percentage reduction, pre-emergency to early May

Correction population changes in 41 states and the Bureau of Prisons, collected at year-end 2019 and late April / early May 2020.

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