How the U.S. Can and Should Greatly Reduce Mass Probation [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/7/1712:00 PM

As America grapples with its overreliance on incarceration and advocates call for the end of mass incarceration, we must also focus on reducing all criminal justice involvement, including probation. By far the largest segment of the criminal justice system in America is probation. There are more than seven million people in the country under the control of the criminal justice system. More than half, just under four million, are not in prison but under the supervision of probation.

[For more of this story, written by David Muhammad, go to http://jjie.org/2017/06/07/how...duce-mass-probation/]

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