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      "summary": "Supervised release replaces parole for federal crimes committed after November 1, 1987. Like parole, supervised release is a term of restricted freedom following a defendant\u2019s release from prison. The nature of supervision and the conditions imposed during supervised release are also similar to those that applied in the old system of parole. However, whereas parole functions in lieu of a remaining prison term, supervised release begins only after a defendant has completed his full prison sentence. Where revocation of parole could lead to a return to prison to finish out a defendant\u2019s original sentence, revocation of supervised release can lead to a return to prison for a term in addition to that imposed for the defendant\u2019s original sentence.\nA sentencing court determines the duration and conditions for a defendant\u2019s supervised release term at the time of initial sentencing. As a general rule, federal law limits the maximum duration to five years, although it permits, and in some cases mandates, longer durations for relatively serious drug, sex, and terrorism-related offenses. A sentencing court retains jurisdiction to modify the terms of a defendant\u2019s supervised release and to revoke the term and return a defendant to prison for violation of the conditions.\nSeveral conditions are standard features of supervised release. Some conditions, such as a ban on the commission of further crimes, are mandatory. Other conditions, such as an obligation to report to a probation officer, have become standard practice by the operation of the federal Sentencing Guidelines, which courts must consider along with other statutorily designated considerations. Together with these regularly imposed conditions, the Sentencing Guidelines recommend additional conditions appropriate for specific circumstances. A sentencing court may impose any of these discretion conditions, as long as they offend no constitutional limitations and as long as they involve no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary and \u201creasonably relate\u201d to the nature of the offense; the defendant\u2019s crime-related history; deterrence of crime; protection of the public; or the defendant\u2019s rehabilitation.\nBoth a defendant\u2019s constitutional rights and federalism concerns create outer limits for the application and scope of supervised release conditions. By nature, such conditions restrict a releasee\u2019s freedom, and some conditions involve systems, such as child support orders, ordinarily governed by the states. Nonetheless, federal courts have upheld a wide range of such conditions against constitutional challenges. \nThe conditions of supervised release have been a source of constitutional challenges. Yet a constitutionally suspect condition is also likely to run afoul of statutory demands. In which case, the courts often resolve the issue on statutory grounds. \nThis report is available in an abridged form, without footnotes or citations to authority, as CRS Report RS21364, Supervised Release: An Abbreviated Outline of Federal Law.",
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