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According to a United States Department of Justice statistics report, at the end of 2002, over over 4.7 million adult men and women were under Federal, State, or local probation or parole jurisdiction.

The Bureau of Statistics state by state report shows a steady increase since 1977 of people on probation. According to the report, Texas has the largest population of over 400,000 people on probation. In 2002, 6.7 million people were under some form of correctional supervision.

As this article in The Olympian illustrates, the cost to build and operate even small to medium size facilities can be over $100 Million to build and $10 Million per year to operate resulting in a  cost of $69 per day per inmate.

The Home Office report for the government in the UK report indicates that there are over 100,000 people on probation and as indicated on page 11 of the report, the UK is moving more people onto electronic monitoring systems as described in the above APPA report.