The total community and pre-release custodial offender caseload for England and Wales as at 31 March in each of the last five years was as follows:
Supervised in community1 Supervised in custody 2004 144,076 61,110 2005 151,443 61,799 2006 166,557 63,697 2007 173,400 66,347 2008 178,652 67,535 1 Includes those supervised on court orders as well as post-release supervision.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.