Admissions Types
| ADMISSION OR RELEASE | ADMISSION TYPE | DASHBOARD FILTER NAME | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMISSION | ADMISSION (Total) | ADMISSION | Offenders who are admitted to a facility of the DOC or a Sheriff's Office, pursuant to a court order, as a transfer from another custodial facility, pursuant to the execution of a parole violation 15-day detainer or warrant or pursuant to the execution of an escape warrant. |
| ADMISSION | ARREST | ARREST | The type of admission could not be determined due to conversion from legacy systems or other reasons |
| ADMISSION | SENTENCED | COMMITMENT | Offenders who are admitted to the DOC or a Sheriff’s Office pursuant to a sentence, or as otherwise prescribed by law. |
| ADMISSION | READMIT FROM COURT RELEASE | COURT RELEASE – Readmit from court release | Re-admit an inmate who was released by court order, overturned case, or stay of execution. |
| ADMISSION | ESCAPE RETURN | ESCAPE RETURN | An escape is the act by which an offender, lawfully sentenced or admitted to the custody of the DOC or a Sheriff's Office, engages in an unauthorized departure from the confines of a correctional institution, the custody of escorting officers, or who fails to return from an authorized release to the community at the designated time. An escape return is an admission following the escape. Note: Escape Return is not an Admission Type used by all agencies, so returned inmates may not be noted as such. Additionally, the jurisdiction of where the escape occurred, where the apprehension occurred and where the individual is housed after apprehension may not be the same jurisdiction. |
| ADMISSION | PAROLE DETAINER | PAROLE VIOLATION (including 15-day Parole Detainers) | An offender under parole supervision may be returned to the DOC or a Sheriff's Office for a parole violation with a new offense or technical parole violation. Parolees may be returned for a period of up to 15 days awaiting the final determination of the Parole Board regarding final revocation of parole. For reporting purposes, offenders who have been returned to DOC custody pursuant to a parole detainer are included in this group. Note: DOC reports parole violation and parole detainer under ‘Parole Violation’ |
| ADMISSION | PAROLE VIOLATION | PAROLE VIOLATION | A parolee may be returned to the DOC or a Sheriff's Office for a parole violation with a new offense or technical parole violation. Admissions as parole violators follow the final determination of the Parole Board to revoke the parole release. For reporting purposes, offenders who have been returned to DOC custody pursuant to a final parole revocation are included in this group. Note: DOC reports parole violation and parole detainer under ‘Parole Violation’ |
| ADMISSION | PRETRIA | HELD PRE-TRIAL | Individuals housed in DOC or a Sheriff's Office custody prior to and during a trial, conviction, and sentencing and not yet convicted of a crime. This admission type would also include individuals held for Criminal Probate Contempt. Note: For DOC this description includes the admission types “Pre-trial held with bail” and “Pre-trial held without bail”. |
| ADMISSION | PRETRIAL HELD WITH BAIL | HELD PENDING DISPOSITION WITH BAIL | Individuals housed in DOC or a Sheriff's Office custody who are detained prior to and during a trial, conviction, and sentencing and not yet convicted of a crime. In this category, the court ordered a specific bail amount that if paid, the offender can be released and agrees to appear at a specified time and place. Note: For DOC this type is reported under "Held Pre-Trial" |
| ADMISSION | PRETRIAL HELD WITHOUT BAIL | HELD PENDING DISPOSITION WITHOUT BAIL | Individuals housed in DOC or a Sheriff's Office custody who are detained prior to and during a trial, conviction, and sentencing and not yet convicted of a crime. In this category the court has not set a bail amount, or the issue related to the detention of the individual is not subject to release by bail. Note: For DOC this type is reported under "Held Pre-Trial". |
| ADMISSION | PROBATION VIOLATION | PROBATION VIOLATOR | An offender admitted to DOC or a Sheriff's Office to serve a previously imposed sentence of probation (suspended sentence, probation, or split sentence) following a revocation of the terms of probation. May also include admissions on a probation violation warrant while the revocation process is pending |
| ADMISSION | HELD FOR ANOTHER DEPARTMENT | HELD FOR ANOTHER DEPARTMENT | This category is used for offenders who were received by the DOC or a Sheriff's Office from another state criminal justice agency. Note: For DOC this would include ‘Received from House of Correction’. |
| ADMISSION | UNKNOWN | OTHER ADMISSION | The type of admission could not be determined due to conversion from legacy systems or other reasons. |
| ADMISSION | HELD PENDING ARRAIGNMENT BAIL | HELD PENDING ARRAIGNMENT BAIL | This code is used after releasing someone from either pre-trial status or completion of sentence, when a warrant or WMS warrant is confirmed. This could also account for arrestees dropped off as part of a regional lockup agreement. |
| Admission | TRANSFER | TRANSFER FROM OTHER JURISDICTION | Returns an offender to the custody of the MA DOC or a Sheriff’s Office from a different Massachusetts custodial agency. For the DOC this includes Return from a House of Correction. |
Release Types
| ADMISSION OR RELEASE | ADMISSION TYPE | DASHBOARD FILTER NAME | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| RELEASE | RELEASE (Total) | RELEASE | Refers to the release of an offender from DOC or Sheriff's Office by way of bail, expiration of sentence, parole, a release to other jurisdiction, a court release or other legal release. Offenders may be released to the community or leave the custody of one criminal justice agency and subsequently be admitted to another criminal justice agency. Offenders can also be released from one legal status at a criminal justice agency and be admitted to another legal status at a criminal justice agency. |
| RELEASE | COURT RELEASE | COURT RELEASE | Offenders released from the DOC or a Sheriff's Office via court release including the following: Habeas to Court - Did not Return, Court Release - Sentence revoked/stayed/vacated. Also, may include court releases due to certain special circumstances. |
| RELEASE | DECEASED | DECEASED | Release due to death of offender prior to expiration of sentence or while being held in a pre-trial status. |
| RELEASE | ESCAPE | ESCAPE | An escape is the act by which an offender, lawfully sentenced or admitted to the custody of the DOC or a Sheriff’s Office, engages in an unauthorized departure from the confines of a correctional institution, the custody of escorting officers, or who fails to return from an authorized release to the community at the designated time. Note: Escape Return is not an Admission Type used by all agencies, so returned inmates may not be noted as such. Additionally, the jurisdiction of where the escape occurred, where the apprehension occurred and where the individual is housed after apprehension may not be the same jurisdiction. |
| RELEASE | MISSING | OTHER RELEASE | The type of release could not be determined due to conversion from legacy systems or other reasons. |
| RELEASE | PAROLED TO COMMUNITY | RELEASE TO PAROLE SUPERVISION | Offenders released to the community from the DOC or a Sheriff’s Office with parole supervision. |
| RELEASE | PRETRIAL RELEASE | RELEASE TIME SERVED (Habeas to Court and Released Time Served) | Offenders released on a pre-trial status from the DOC or a Sheriff's Office where the offender was convicted and sentenced to a term of incarceration equal to the time already served in a pre-trial status. Note: DOC reports pre-trial releases as “Court Release”, “Remain Incarcerated”, “Release to another agency” or “Bail/Release on Personal Recognizance”, as applicable. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED ON BAIL | RELEASED ON BAIL | The release of an offender the DOC or Sheriff's Office after paying the court ordered bail amount and agreeing to appear at a specified time and place. Note: DOC reports release types of Bail/Release on Personal Recognizance under this definition. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED ON PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE | RELEASED ON PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE | The release of an offender from the DOC or Sheriff's Office after a court order and agreeing to appear at a specified time and place. Note: DOC reports these under "Release on Bail" definition. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED TO ANOTHER CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY | RELEASED TO ANOTHER CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY | Offenders who were released from their current sentence but still under the custody of another criminal justice agency including: Parole to Out of State Sentence; Parole to Federal Authority; Parole to Immigration; Parole to a From and After House of Correction Sentence; Parole to Warrant; Parole to a From and After Department of Correction Sentence; Expiration Release to Out of State Sentence; Expiration Release to Federal Authority; Expiration Release to Immigration; Expiration Release to From and After House of Correction Sentence; Expiration Release to Warrant; Expiration Release to From and After/Concurrent at Department of Correction, Bail/Release on Personal Recognizance to Warrant, Expiration of fine to a warrant. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED TO PROBATION WITH OR WITHOUT SUPERVISION | RELEASED TO PROBATION WITH OR WITHOUT SUPERVISION | Offenders released from the DOC or a Sheriff's Office to probation supervision. The period of probation supervision can be actively supervised (e.g., Risk/Need probation) or less actively supervised (e.g., Administrative Probation). Note: DOC reports those released to the community with probation supervision as ‘Released with Supervision’ and those with parole supervision as ‘Released to Parole Supervision’. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED WITHOUT SUPERVISION | RELEASED WITHOUT SUPERVISION | The release of an offender from the DOC or a Sheriff's Office to the community by discharge, expiration of sentence, fine paid, expiration of fine, or good conduct discharge (GCD). These offenders are released without supervision of the parole board or probation. |
| RELEASE | REMAIN INCARCERATED | REMAIN INCARCERATED | The release of an offender from one legal status to another within the same criminal justice agency. For example, the release of an offender from one sentence to a From & After (F/A) sentence. Note: DOC court releases to another sentence are reported under this definition. |
| RELEASE | RELEASE WITH SUPERVISION | RELEASE WITH SUPERVISION | The release of an offender from the custody of the DOC or a Sheriff's Office to the community by discharge expiration of sentence, fine paid, expiration of fine, or good conduct discharge (GCD). These offenders are released with probation supervision. Offenders released with both supervision of the parole board and probation supervision are listed under “Released to Parole Supervision”. |
| RELEASE | RELEASED TO HOME CONFINEMENT | RELEASED TO HOME CONFINEMENT | A Sheriff's Office may use for pre-trial offenders or incarcerated individuals released by the court to GPS/ELMO/Home Confinement. Note: DOC reports the Release from Home Confinement to the community under other release types. |
| RELEASE | TRANSFER | TRANSFER TO ANOTHER CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY | Transfer from the custody of the MA DOC or a Sheriff’s Office to the custody of a different Massachusetts custodial agency. For DOC this includes Transfer to House of Correction, and Non-DOC Inmate to HOC/FED/PD/Other State. |