The CSCD has three criminal felony courts (104^th – 350^th – 42^nd) and four misdemeanor courts (Taylor County Court-at-Law #1 – Taylor County Court-at-law #2 – Callahan County Court – Coleman County Court) that place offenders on supervision. 

The following charts show the number of felony and misdemeanor placements for FY’ 04, 05, 06 and 07.

     DEFERRED ADJUDICATION SUPERVISION

According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.12, § 5, deferred adjudication community supervision is provided a defendant when, following a plea of guilty or no contest, the judge defers further proceedings without entering an adjudication of guilt and places the defendant on community supervision.

In FY ’07, district and county courts-at-law judges deferred 294 felony offenders and 557 misdemeanor offenders, for a total of 851 individuals placed on deferred adjudication supervision.  This is a decrease of 4.5% in felony deferred adjudication placements and an increase of 75.1% in misdemeanor deferred adjudication placements from FY ’06.

REGULAR SUPERVISION

Adjudicated defendants placed on community supervision by the courts consisted of 319 felony and 298 misdemeanor cases for a total of 617 offenders. Misdemeanor adjudicated supervision placements decreased by 36.3% and felony adjudicated placements decreased by 11.9% from FY’ 06.

OVERALL PLACEMENT ON SUPERVISION

Overall, courts placed 1,468 (855 misdemeanor, 613 felony) offenders on community supervision during fiscal year ’07. Misdemeanor community supervision placements increased by 5.9% and felony placements decreased by 8.5% from FY ’06.

The following tables compare Felony and Misdemeanor Placements from FY ’05 - ’07:

The department supervised a monthly average of 1,883 direct felons and 750 direct misdemeanants for FY ’07 and 1,862 direct felons and 717 misdemeanants for FY ’06.  There was a 1.1% increase from fiscal year ’06 to fiscal year ’07 for direct felonies and a 4.6% increase for direct misdemeanors.   

The department supervised a monthly average of 954 indirect felons and 749 indirect misdemeanants for FY ’07 and 975 indirect felons and 816 indirect misdemeanants for FY ’06.  There was a 2.1% decrease from fiscal year ’06 for indirect felonies and a 8.2% decrease for indirect misdemeanors. Indirect status consists of interstate and intrastate transfers, offenders reporting by mail, inactive offenders on indirect status in jail or prison, absconders, and offenders on indirect status serving time in a Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility.

The department terminated 1992 community supervision cases during fiscal year ’07, a 194 person decrease from FY ’06.  45.3% (903) of the terminated cases were successful discharges consisting of early terminations and expired terms of supervision.

The following table illustrates terminations in detail: