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criminal justice reform

9/30/2019

How to End the Era of Mass Supervision

Opinion

David Muhammad and Vincent Schiraldi

Probation and parole started out in the 1800s as rehabilitation efforts that tempered punishment with mercy. With the advent of the War on Drugs in the 1970s, rehabilitation and mercy became dirty words, and community supervision morphed into community corrections, emulating its big brother the prison as one more punitive response to poverty.

8/22/2019

CNN Host Van Jones Sees Urgency in Movement for Probation and Parole Reform

Jeremy Loudenback

“Timing is everything,” CNN host and author Van Jones told a room full of law enforcement officials, gathered in San Francisco on Monday for the announcement of a new initiative that hopes to drastically shrink the number of Americans under the supervision of probation or parole.

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