The Use of Machines in Parole Case Control

Abstract

One of the responsibilities of the professional caseworkers who supervise parolees is to account each month for the status of those under their supervision. Both the law and good parole casework practice require that such an accounting be made. At one time, parolees' names, identification numbers, and other data had to be written by hand by the parole officers in the New York State Division of Parole. Today, the officers have been relieved of this clerical chore; listing and control of cases are now being done efficiently and economically by key-punch and accounting machines. The same key-punched cards used to pre pare the monthly reports are also used to machine-print organ izational reports for administrative and budgetary purposes. The use of machines in parole case control has resulted in accurate and timely reports and has freed the parole officers for their main professional task of assisting in the rehabilitation of parolees.