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(New York, NY, July 31, 2020) – Probation and parole are promoted as alternatives to incarceration that help people get back on their feet, but instead feed bloated jail and prison populations in the United States, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a joint report released today.
The 225-page report, “Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States,” finds that supervision – probation and parole – drives high numbers of people, disproportionately those who are Black and brown, right back to jail or prison, while in large part failing to help them get needed services and resources. In states examined in the report, people are often incarcerated for violating the rules of their supervision or for low-level crimes, and receive disproportionate punishment following proceedings that fail to adequately protect their fair trial rights.
An article featuring Vincent Schiraldi, a one-time critic of the criminal legal system who became New York City’s probation commissioner and helped reform the system, is available at:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/31/vincent-schiraldi-criminal-law-reformer-who-transformed-probation-new-york-city
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