Absconder - An offender on parole or community supervision who fails to report to his/her Parole Officer or Community Supervision Officer and cannot be located for the purpose of establishing or continuing supervision. A warrant can be issued for the apprehension and detention of an absconder.

Acquittal – Judicial deliverance from a criminal charge on a verdict or finding of not guilty.

Active Parole Supervision - A supervision status under which the offender is assigned to a caseload that reports directly to a parole officer (see Parole / Mandatory Supervision Population).

Admissions to Prison - Offenders physically processed through diagnostic facilities and admitted into state Institutional Division (prison) facilities upon direct court sentences for convictions of new offenses, violations of terms of parole supervision, or a revocations of probated sentences.

Admissions to State Jail - Offenders admitted into State Jail Division facilities for convictions of State Jail felony offenses. Admissions may be in the form of direct sentences, up-front time as a condition of State Jail Probation supervision, State Jail Probation modifications, or State Jail Probation revocations (see State Jail Division).

Administrative release (parole/mandatory supervision) revocation hearing, administrative release revocation hearing, revocation hearing or violation hearing--Are synonymous terms for a hearing conducted under §§145.41-145.55 of this title (relating to Revocation of Administrative Release (Parole and Mandatory Supervision)); and for hearings, §§147.1-147.7 of this title (relating to General Rules for Hearings); and §§147.21-147.28 of this title (relating to Evidence), to determine whether the board will enter an order revoking the administrative release or order some lesser sanction or recommend to the governor the revocation of the administrative release of any individual subject to executive clemency.

Administrative releasee - A person released to parole or mandatory supervision and under the supervision of the TDCJ-Parole Division. The term also includes a person released on a conditional pardon.

Administrative Violation of Parole or Mandatory Supervision--A violation of parole or mandatory supervision which does not allege criminal conduct.

Adult Arrests - Arrests for individuals age 17 and above as reported by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Adult Arrest Rate - The number of adult (age 17 and over) arrests per 100,000 adult population.

Affinity (Marriage) - A husband-wife relationship (first degree). By virtue of the marriage, a spouse is also related to individuals related to the other spouse by blood (consanguinity), and the degree of relationship by affinity is the same as the underlying relationship of consanguinity. The ending of a marriage by divorce or death of a spouse ends relationships of affinity created by that marriage unless a child of that marriage is living, in which case the marriage is considered to continue as long as a child of that marriage lives.

Aftercare – Structured services designed to assist an offender in maintaining the skills and behaviors learned in treatment during and after reentry into the community. Focus is on the prevention of relapse and return to criminal risk behaviors

Aggravated Offenses - Offenses defined under Article 42.12, Section 3g of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. These offenses currently include Capital Murder, 1st and 2nd Degree Murder, Aggravated Sexual Assault, Aggravated Kidnapping, Aggravated Robbery, Indecency with a Child (with Sexual Contact), Sexual Assault of a Child, and those offenses with an Affirmative Weapon Finding. .

Area supervisor or regional supervisor--Are synonymous terms for the regional staff officer supervising the parole officer to whom the parolee reports.

Arrest – Hold time in legal custody, either at the scene of a crime or as a result of investigations. Arrest can also be the result of a complaint filed by a third party, an outstanding warrant, or a revocation of probation or parole.

Assessment – Evaluation or appraisal of a candidate's suitability for placement in a specific treatment modality/setting and the relationship to custody and supervision. Results from the assessment are placed in the offender's case plan and include risk/need assessment and secondary assessments that focus on special and/or specific areas related to the individual offender's requirements for successful completion of sentence and reintegration into the community.

Battering Intervention and Prevention Program (BIPP). These are operated by nonprofit organizations to provide treatment and educational services on a local basis to batterers referred by the courts for treatment. Such treatment and educational services are designed to help batterers stop abusive behavior. Working in collaboration with the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV), TDCJ-CJAD has established minimum Guidelines for programs to receive funding.

Bench Warrant - Refers to a court order that detains an inmate in a county jail for court related reasons. An example would be a prison inmate who has been ordered to appear before a court as a witness.

Blue Warrant (Pre-Revocation Warrant) - An order issued by the Parole Division of the Department of Criminal Justice to detain an offender under parole or mandatory supervision pending an administrative hearing due to alleged violations by the offender of the terms and conditions of release.

Board of Pardons and Paroles - A six member board appointed by the Governor and twelve parole commissioners to make decisions concerning Parole / Mandatory Supervision releases, revocations, and executive clemency.

Board of Pardons and Paroles Panel - A subgroup of the full Board (usually three members), that reviews offender files to determine if an offender will be released to parole/mandatory supervision prior to completion of the full sentence (see Parole Releases, Mandatory Supervision Releases, and Discretionary Mandatory Supervision Releases).

Boot Camps - Highly structured, short-term prison treatment programs modeled after military basic training. These programs emphasize physical exercise, strict supervision and discipline, and are typically designed for young, first-time offenders.

Calendar Time - A count of actual days served on a sentence.

Capacity - The number of beds available for use by the Department of Criminal Justice.

Clemency – The granting of particular relief to an individual concerning their crime. Forms of clemency include pardons, commutations, reprieves, and remitting a debt.

Cognitive Programming – Programs that are designed to change offender thinking and therefore behavior from anti-social to pro-social. Cognitive programs are comprised of two major approaches.
Cognitive restructuring which focuses on; attitudes, beliefs, values, expectations, thinking patterns and other related cognitive structures which maintain their antisocial behavior. Cognitive skills which include things such as; problem solving, communication, critical reasoning, anger management, and other thought and behavior combinations that are necessary for successful reduction of risk, offender change, and reintegration into the community.

Cognitive Self-Change (CSC) – A specific cognitive behavioral program designed to teach offenders to change the patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving which lead to criminal behaviors. CSC emphasizes the principles of choice, self risk management, personal accountability, and custody treatment partnerships in offender change programs.

Communication Strategies – Correctional communication techniques that are developed based on correctional research and incorporate cognitive behavioral social learning principles and practices. Communication strategies incorporate the variety of available communication techniques for the specific purpose of integrating custody and treatment practices toward the overall goal of effective offender management and change.

Community Reintegration Planning (CRP) (also known as transition and reentry) – Preparation and strategy for each individual prisoner's release from custody which prepares them for return to the community in a law-abiding role after release. CRP requires developmental interagency and interdisciplinary coordination and includes joint staffing whereby personnel discuss shared data about an offender relative to both treatment and custody. CRP should begin at reception and follow the offender through release and aftercare.

Commutation – the substitution of one punishment for a crime for another punishment for the crime.

Community residential facility - A facility for the provision of residential placement services to administrative releasees.

Commutation of sentence - An act of clemency by the governor which serves to modify the conditions of a sentence.

Community Justice Assistance Division (CJAD) - The division of the Department of Criminal Justice that provides funding, develops standards, and has general oversight over Community Supervision and Corrections Departments within the state.

Community Supervision - Refers to the court ordered placement of a defendant to a continuum of programs and sanctions in the community, with conditions imposed by the court for a specified time period, upon suspension of their sentence (commonly referred to as probation).

Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) - Local government level departments that supervise and help rehabilitate offenders who are sentenced to community supervision by local courts. There are 122 departments in Texas, organized within judicial districts and serving 254 counties (commonly referred to as probation

Conditional pardons - A form of executive clemency granted by the governor which serves to release the grantee from the conditions of his or her sentence and/or any disabilities imposed by law thereby, subject to the conditions contained in the clemency proclamation. A person released pursuant to the terms of a conditional pardon is considered, for purposes of revocation thereof, to be an administrative releasee (see the definition of administrative releasee set forth in this section), and all such revocations for revocation of administrative release, §§145.41-145.55 of this title (relating to Revocation of Administrative Release (Parole and Mandatory Supervision)).

Consanguinity - A relationship in which one individual is related to another individual where one is a descendant of the other or where they share a common ancestor. An adopted child is considered to be a child of the adoptive parent for this purpose. The degree of relationship by consanguinity may be determined by adding the number of generations between an individual and the individual's ancestor or descendant.

Consanguinity within the third degree - An individual's relatives within the third degree by consanguinity are the individual's parent or child (relatives in the first degree); brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild (relatives in the second degree); and great-grandparent, great-grandchild, aunt who is a sister of a parent of the individual, uncle who is a brother of a parent of the individual, nephew who is a child of a brother or sister of the individual, or niece who is a child of a brother or sister of an individual (relatives in the third degree).

Constitutional and statutory references - Articles of the Texas Constitution, the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the Texas Civil Statutes, or Texas Penal Code.

Contract of release - An order of the board incorporating the terms and conditions of release (See Parole Certificate).

Criminal Conduct - An act prohibited by law, not including an offense punishable by fine only involving the operation of a motor vehicle.

CU/FI - Consecutive felony sentence vote that designates the date on which the prisoner would have been eligible for release on parole if the prisoner had been sentenced to serve a single sentence. This is not a release to parole vote.

CU/NR - Consecutive felony sentence vote to deny favorable parole action and set for review on a future specific month and year (set-off).

Competency Based Performance – A definition of competence for both staff and offender that includes knowledge, skill, and attitude in the measurement of assuring that any individual is properly qualified for a particular task or purpose.

Conditional release – a generic term denoting discretionary release with specific CONDITIONS. In some states (i.e., NY) a term denoting mandatory release by statute/law with specific conditions. Both discretionary and mandatory conditional release cases are under parole supervision.

Continual Interagency Communication – The ongoing cooperative effort among treatment, justice, and public health personnel necessary to successfully treat and supervise the offender. Communication among criminal justice, treatment, and public health systems facilitates optimum results in both offender management and training. It models a “One Voice One Message” approach to staff and offenders.

Continuum of Care – Early, thorough, and substantial treatment delivered in an unbroken manner throughout the entire criminal case-handling process, from arrest through the completion of a sentence. The components of a continuum of care include; custody and program practices from assessment through aftercare as well as documentation of offender progress as they move through the system.

Criminogenic – Relating to characteristics or factors identified by research as predictors of crime and/or related recidivism.

Criminogenic Need – Criminogenic needs are attributes of offenders that are directly linked to criminal behavior. Effective correctional treatment should target criminogenic needs in the development of a comprehensive case plan.

Criminogenic Risk – Those offender characteristics that are directly related to researched causation of crime. Risk factors are also directly related to the probability of reoffending. Risk factors are used in offender management to predict future criminal behavior and to assign levels and types of treatment services.

Cross Discipline Training – Continual interagency communication and training in which custody, administration and treatment staff are trained to understand and in some cases deliver the responsibilities relative to each other's roles. Cross discipline training is designed to facilitate support and the reinforcement of the mutual goals.

Day Reporting Center – A place where select offenders must report while on probation or parole and where the offender receives an increased intensity of services. Day reporting centers may include educational services, vocational training, treatment, and other service deliveries.

Deferred Adjudication - A postponement of entering a finding of guilt, where the offender undergoes a term of community supervision that, if completed successfully, will prevent a final conviction from appearing on the offender’s record.

Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) - The state agency that oversees the adult criminal justice system. The major divisions are the Institutional Division (Prison), State Jail Division, Parole Division, and Criminal Justice Assistance Division.

Deterrence (General) – The sentencing principal that underlies the notion of “making an example” of someone or of “sending a message” to a particular area or group by the way in which someone they might identify with is treated. The idea is to frighten the population of potential offenders into remaining law abiding. General deterrence uses either the fear of getting caught, the probability of getting caught, or the unpleasant consequences of conviction to prevent crime.

Deterrence (Specific) – The sentencing principal that takes the same fears as general deterrence – of getting caught and the consequences of getting caught – and uses them to induce law-abiding behavior in an individual. The notion is that it is possible to so scare an offender through the consequences of the original act that he or she will not reoffend.

Detoxification – Structured medical or social milieu in which the individual is monitored for withdrawal from the acute physical and psychological effects of addiction.

Developmental Interagency Coordination – Collaboration among in-house, contract, and community criminal justice treatment and public health professionals. Includes fiscal considerations, policy, and joint standards and developmental inter- agency coordination. It is designed to insure appropriate and consistent practices throughout the criminal justice system. It is particularly important that autonomous authority such as the judiciary and paroling authorities are included in this collaboration.

Direct Court Sentences to Prison - Offenders who are ordered by the courts to serve time in prison who were not under probation or parole/mandatory supervision at the time of conviction.

Direct Probation Supervision - Offenders who are on community supervision and who work and/or reside in the jurisdiction in which they are being supervised and maintain a minimum of one face-to-face contact with a community supervision officer every three months.

Direct Sentence to State Jail - Offenders who are ordered by the courts to serve time in a State Jail facility who are not required to receive post-release supervision (probation).

Discharge - Offenders who are released from prison or a State Jail facility either by full expiration of their sentence or by court order.

Discretionary Mandatory Supervision (DMS) Releases - Offenders with offenses committed on or after September 1, 1996 who are released from prison under Mandatory Supervision contingent upon approval by a Board of Pardons and Paroles panel vote (see Mandatory Supervision Releases).

Diversion – Process whereby an offender's disposition is modified or suspended based on levels of custody and intervention appropriate to the offender's level of risk, need, and responsivity. Available resources, attention to just sentencing, and interagency collaboration are essential components of diversion programs.

DMS - Mandatory supervision vote to deny release to mandatory supervision and set for review on a future specific month and year (set-off).

Division - The Parole Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Drug Testing – Random and targeted technical examination of urine samples to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces.

Drug Use Forecasting – Assessment of offender drug use and treatment data used to identify trends for the purpose of more efficient use of resources and program planning.

Executive Clemency – the granting of clemency by the Chief Executive.
Exiting Standards (also referred to as discharge requirements /summaries) – Required completion of specific elements of treatment and education programming in order to be placed on parole or released into the community.

Federal Inmate - An inmate housed in county jails on a contractual basis between the county and the federal penal system.

Felons Sent to County Jail - Offenders convicted of a felony offense who are given county jail time for their term of incarceration (under Section 12.44(a), Texas Penal Code).

Felony Case Conviction - A felony case disposed with a guilty verdict by a criminal court as reported by the Office of Court Administration.

Fiduciary - A person holding a position of trust, who has the duty, created by the undertaking, to act primarily for another's benefit in that undertaking.

Fiscal Year - The Texas fiscal year begins on September 1st and ends on August 31st.

Full Pardon - An unconditional act of executive clemency by the governor which serves to release the grantee from the conditions of his or her sentence and from any disabilities imposed by law thereby.

Further Investigation (FI) - An initial determination by a parole panel favorable to parole of an inmate, subject to additional investigation and processing.

Good Conduct Time - Days credited towards completion of a sentence based upon the behavior of an offender.

Halfway/Transition House – Transitional facility where the client is involved in school, work, training, etc. The client lives onsite while either stabilizing or reentering society drug free. The client usually receives individual counseling as well as group, family, and marital therapy while working.

Hearing officer - A staff member designated by the board and assigned to conduct an administrative release revocation hearing concerning one or more allegations of violation of the terms and/or conditions of parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon.

Hearing section -The hearings section of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Impact Point – An incident or event at a given point in time that has negative or positive emotional significance on the offender such as time of arrest, sentencing, disciplinary action, loss of a loved one, graduation from a program, recognition for good behavior, etc. Every impact point offers the opportunity for the use of therapeutic tools designed to identify dysfunctional or harmful responses to the event and to train the offender in appropriate healthy responses.

Incapacitation – A sentencing philosophy that seeks to reduce the opportunity that offenders have for committing crime in the future. Incarceration is a typical way to incapacitate offenders. However, restrictions on movement in the community may also have incapacitative goals. Ultimately, incapacitation seeks crime prevention and community safety.

Infectious Diseases Risk Assessment – Evaluation of an offender's risk for sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. Testing and referral for treatment are recommended to offenders assessed at high risk for such diseases, and intermittent reassessment is recommended for offenders assessed at low risk. Collaboration between criminal justice, treatment, and public health personnel ensures interagency coordination in the assessment and treatment of the high-risk offender at various stages throughout the criminal justice continuum and in the development of referral procedures and reporting policies as well as in understanding each system's definition of success and failure.

Infectious Diseases Screening/Testing – Administration of screening tests that are sensitive and specific for the detection of tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases.

Inmate - A person incarcerated in the TDCJ-Institutional Division, other penal institution, or jail serving a sentence imposed upon conviction of a felony.

Intermediate and Graduated Sanctions – A structured purposeful array of sanctions designed to assign level and type of consequence to violations of supervision/custody and or new crimes. Consequences must be appropriate to the behavior, related to levels of risk and need and integrated with planned interventions. Examples of graduated sanctions include increased surveillance combined with an appropriate intervention, loss of privileges combined with an appropriate intervention. Intermediate and graduated sanctions are designed to facilitate the balance between offender accountability, responsibility, and change. Intermediate and graduated sanctions are directly related to the principle of diversion.

Interventions – Intervention pertains to activities designed to intercede in and address thinking and behavior that leads to or may result from alcohol/drug use and abuse and crime.

In-Prison Therapeutic Community (IPTC) - A nine-month intensive substance abuse treatment program for offenders incarcerated in prison.

Incarceration Rate - Offenders incarcerated in state facilities per 100,000 of the total state population.

Index Crimes - A set of crimes defined by the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a benchmark in the study of crime trends. They are composed of Violent Index Crimes (Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Rape, Robbery, and Aggravated Assault) and Property Index Crimes (Burglary, Larceny-Theft, and Motor Vehicle Theft).

Indirect Probation Supervision - Offenders who have been placed on community supervision, but do not report to an officer directly because: they have transferred out of their original Community Supervision Corrections Department (CSCD) or county to another state, another CSCD or county; they report by mail; they have absconded; or they are incarcerated in county jail, prison, or State Jail (and they have a term of community supervision to complete upon release from incarceration).

Institutional Division (ID) - The division of the Department of Criminal Justice that houses offenders with Capital, 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd degree felony convictions. The Institutional Division is commonly referred to as prison.

Intensive Supervision - A special condition of Parole or Mandatory Supervision where high-risk/high-needs offenders are under stricter surveillance, a more stringent supervision structure, and more intensive participation than the requirements under regular Parole or Mandatory Supervision.

Intermediate Sanction Facilities (ISF) - Short-term (up to 90 days) incarceration facilities used by the Board of Pardons and Paroles in lieu of revocation for offenders who have been found to have violated the terms or conditions of parole/mandatory supervision release.

Mandatory supervision - The non-discretionary release of a prisoner from imprisonment but not from the legal custody of the state, under such conditions and provisions for supervision as the board panel may determine. A prisoner released to mandatory supervision is deemed as if on parole. For the purposes of revocation, the terms "parole" and "mandatory supervision" are interchangeable and reference to either one of said terms includes the other.

Mandatory supervision certificate - An order of the board or board panel incorporating the terms and conditions of supervision.

Mandatory supervision date - The date on which the release to mandatory supervision of an eligible prisoner may occur.

Mandatory supervision releasee and mandatory releasee - A person released from prison under mandatory supervision (see definition of "mandatory supervision" set forth in this section). A mandatory releasee is also an administrative releasee (see definition of "administrative releasee" set forth in this section)

Misdemeanor Probation - Community supervision for offenders convicted of an A or B misdemeanor.

New Felony Conviction - An offender convicted for an offense who, at the time of conviction, was not under felony probation, parole, or mandatory supervision.

Non-Aggravated Sex Offenses - Sex offenses such as Incest and Indecency by Exposure not listed under Article 42.12, Section 3g of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Non-Violent Offenses - Non-personal property and drug offenses.

Paper Ready - Inmates held in county jail facilities awaiting transfer to prison who are ready for transfer, with all necessary paperwork completed. State law requires that inmates be transferred to prison within 45 days of being “Paper Ready.”

Pardon - See the definition of full pardon set forth in this section.

Parole - The discretionary release of a prisoner from imprisonment but not from the legal custody of the state, under such conditions and provisions for supervision as the board or board panel may determine.

Parole certificate - An order of the board or board panel, incorporating the terms and conditions of release (See Contract of Release).

Parole officer - A person duly appointed by the director of the TDCJ-Parole Division and assigned the duty of supervising administrative releasees.

Parole panel - A three member decision-making body authorized to act in administrative release matters.

Parolee - A person released from prison on parole (see definition of parole set forth in this section). A parolee is also an administrative releasee (see definition of "administrative releasee" set forth in this section).

Parole Approvals - Parole approvals granted by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Parole Approval Rate - The percentage of parole approvals out of the number of cases considered for parole.

Parole/MS Cases Under Jurisdiction - All cases under active Parole / Mandatory Supervision plus: those reporting annually, cases supervised out of state, declared absconders, cases released to detainer, and out-of-country conditional pardons.

Parole Considerations - Cases reviewed for parole by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Parole Division - The division of the Department of Criminal Justice that supervises offenders released from prison on Parole or Mandatory Supervision Release.

Parole-in-Absentia (PIA) - Offenders released to parole or mandatory supervision from either county jails, out of state facilities, or in federal penal institutions.

Parole/MS Population - Offenders actively supervised by the Parole Division after their Parole or Mandatory Supervision Release from prison.

Parole Releases - Offenders who are released from prison under the conditions of parole to the supervision of the Parole Division. Parole Release is contingent upon approval by a Board of Pardons and Paroles panel. Currently, offenders are considered for parole when their Calendar Time served plus Good Conduct Time earned equals one-fourth of their total sentence if the offense for which they are serving is not aggravated. If the offense was aggravated, offenders are considered when their Calendar Time served equals fifty percent of their total sentence.

Parole Revocations - An admission classification for offenders returned to prison after a Board of Pardons and Paroles panel has terminated their parole due to a conviction for a new offense or for violations of the terms and conditions of their release (see White Warrant).
Parole Violators with a New Charge: Parole/mandatory supervision offenders held in county jails awaiting trial or serving time for new criminal offenses.

Party - Each person or agency named or admitted as a party.

Policy Board - Six members of the board appointed by the governor as an additional duty of office, who vote on policy matters affecting the entire board.

Preliminary hearing - Hearing at which is determined whether probable cause exists to support an allegation of a parole violation, pending a revocation hearing.

Pre-parole transfer - The transfer of an eligible prisoner, as defined in Texas Civil Statutes, Article 6166-4, to a community residential facility, as defined in Texas Civil Statutes, Article 6616-4.

Prison - See Institutional Division.

Pre-Parole Transfer (PPT) - Community-based residential facilities that house offenders who are within one year of their approved parole or mandatory supervision release date.

Pretrial Offenders - Offenders charged with a felony being held in county jail facilities awaiting adjudication.

Probation Placements - Offenders who are sentenced to community supervision. Offenders are placed on Misdemeanor, State Jail, or Regular Felony Probation.

Probation Revocations - An admissions classification for offenders sentenced to either prison or State Jail after their probation was terminated due to a conviction for a new offense or for violations of the terms and conditions of their probation.

Recidivism Rate - The percentage of offenders released from prison or an alternative to incarceration program who are reincarcerated after a specified period of time.

Regular Felony Probation Supervision - Supervision for felony offenders who have been found guilty or whose adjudication of guilt has been deferred (see deferred adjudications). These offenders are given probated sentences in lieu of sentences to prison. If revoked, these offenders will be sentenced to prison. Regular felony probation supervision includes those placed on felony probation by the courts, deferred adjudications, those returned from Felony Shock Incarceration, and those returned from State Boot Camp.

Release plan - Proposed community and place of residence and proposed employment or proposed provision for maintenance and care of the releasee.

Remission of fine or forfeiture - An act of clemency by the governor releasing the grantee from payment of all or a portion of a fine or canceling a forfeiture of a bond.

Reprieve - A temporary release from the terms of an imposed sentence.

Restitution Facilities - Community-based corrections facilities operated by Community Supervision Corrections Departments in which offenders on community supervision participate in activities designed to assist the offender in paying back individual victims of crime and society as a whole. These facilities provide twenty-four hour supervision and a highly structured environment for nonviolent felony offenders. Offenders are confined to the center except to go to their place of employment, to perform community service work, or to attend education or rehabilitation programs. The facilities target offenders who have problems holding jobs or paying court-ordered fees, and who do not have serious substance abuse problems.

Restoration of rights of citizenship -A pardon limited to the restoration of the right to vote, which in turn restores any other civil rights conditioned upon the right to vote.

Revocation -The cancellation of parole, mandatory supervision, or of a conditional act of executive clemency which subjects the administrative releasee or grantee of the act of executive clemency to immediate incarceration or, in the instance of reprieve of a fine, to immediate payment of the fine.

RMS - Mandatory supervision vote to release to mandatory supervision when TDCJ determines that the prisoner has reached a mandatory supervision date.

Serve-All (SA) - A decision by the board or board panel to deny parole and to not release the inmate until serve-all date.

Serve-All Date - The projected release date or minimum expiration date as determined by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Statutory references - See the definition of "constitutional and statutory references" set forth in this section.

Sentences to Prison - Offenders ordered by the court to serve a term of incarceration as a result of a direct court sentence, parole/mandatory supervision revocation, or probation revocation.

Shock Probation - Community supervision sentence that allows judges to order the release of offenders who have served no more than one hundred and eighty days in prison. These offenders then serve the remainder of their sentence on Regular Felony Probation.

State Jail Division - The division of the Department of Criminal Justice that houses offenders convicted of State Jail felony offenses. An individual adjudged guilty of a State Jail felony offense may be confined in a State Jail facility for a term of no more than two years nor less than 75 days. There is no parole or mandatory supervision release from State Jail.

State Jail Facility - A state funded incarceration facility that houses offenders convicted of a State Jail Felony offense.

State Jail Felony Offenses - Consist mainly of lower level assault, property, drug, and family offenses.

State Jail Felons Sentenced to County Jail - Offenders convicted of State Jail felony offenses who have been sentenced to county jail instead of a State Jail facility.

State Jail Felons Sentenced to State Jail - Offenders convicted of State Jail felony offenses who have been sentenced to a State Jail facility.

State Jail Probation - Community supervision for offenders convicted of a State Jail felony offense. These offenders are given a probated sentence in lieu of a commitment to a county jail or a State Jail facility. If revoked, these offenders will be sentenced to a State Jail facility.

Substance Abuse Felony Punishment (SAFP) - An alternative to incarceration program operated by the state where offenders are sentenced to nine months of confinement and intensive treatment in a substance abuse treatment facility. Offenders on probation and parole or mandatory supervision are eligible to participate in this program.

Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) - Residential, community corrections program that provides 24-hour supervision and specifically treats offenders who engage in chemical abuse.

Trial officials - The present sheriff, prosecuting attorney, and judge in the county and court of offense, conviction and release.

Up-Front Time - A sentence to a State Jail facility not to exceed 180 days as a condition of State Jail Probation. After release from State Jail, the offender is placed under State Jail Probation supervision.

Victim - A person who is a victim of sexual assault, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, or felony harassment or who has suffered bodily injury or death as a result of the criminal conduct of another, as defined in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 24.18, §8

White Warrant (Revocation Warrant) - A warrant issued by the Parole Division revoking an offender’s Parole / Mandatory Supervision.