Op-Ed: Stop putting people in prison for small parole and probation rule violations (via latimesopinion)
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Traditionally, there have been fewer checks on probation and parole enforcement because they were established with more benign intent. But when the goal of rehabilitation for incarcerated people was largely declared dead in the mid-1970s, probation and parole took a sharp turn toward surveillance and punishment.
Last year, the Council of State Governments reported that people admitted to state prisons for technical violations were incarcerated
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