March 11, 2021
New York spends billions operating prisons and jails with disappointing public safety benefits and severe racial inequities. Our state sends more people back to prison for technical parole violations — things like missing appointments or staying out past curfew — than any other state. [...] This is a costly and ineffective way to improve safety and help people succeed after prison — the two purposes of parole. Our just-released research found that, in 2019, New York spent at least $319 million incarcerating people for parole violations.
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