NCJ Number
186118
Date Published
2000
Length
38 pages
Annotation
This report describes the characteristics of offenders committed by the courts to the New York State Department of Correctional Services during 1998.
Abstract
Individual tables prevent information on the crimes, minimum sentences, prior criminal records, age, sex, race, and county of commitment of the offenders newly committed. Additional tables display trends in new court commitments during 1995-98. The State had 28,936 total admissions to the New York State Department of Correctional Services in 1998. These included 19,497 new court commitments, 7,679 returned parole violators, and 1,760 other admissions. Twenty-eight percent of the new commitments were violent felony offenders, 47 percent were drug offenders, 15 percent were property or other offenders, 8 percent were coercive crime offenders, and 3 percent were youthful and juvenile offenders. Forty-seven percent of the new court commitments were sentenced as first felony offenders, 52 percent as second felony offenders, and 1 percent as persistent felony offenders. Tables and figures