In an article posted July 31st, 2020, Human Rights Watch highlights how parole and probation have unfortunately feed mass incarceration, not reduced it.
The article uses a report published by Human Rights Watch and the ACLU which explores this dynamic and its disproportionate impact on people of color.
“Probation and parole are seen as acts of leniency, but in the states we examined, they often lead to incarceration just for using drugs, failing to report a new address, or public order offenses like disorderly conduct,” said Allison Frankel, Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, and the report’s author.
Read more: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/31/us-probation-parole-feed-mass-incarceration-crisis