Parole in Criminal Justice: A Look at Five Different States What does it mean to actually be paroled within the states? The term parole, like other criminal justice terms, is sometimes misinterpreted to mean something different or just not fully understood. Hence, parole means that an offender serves part of their given sentence under the supervision of their community (Gaines 258). As well, under the U.S. Parole Commission, the law states that parole may be …showed first 75 words of 993 total…

…showed last 75 words of 993 total…provides California with a dynamic correctional system. With the tremendous growth of the California prison population have given some residents safety and security, but they are mostly unaware that roughly 90% of the entire prison population will return out to the community, unable to carry out the designated prison sentence due to overcrowding. In the California prison system, in any given year, 40% of California’s prisons are released back into the community (http://www.cppca.org).