Tag: Community Supervision

Smarter Federal Supervision: Cut Costs And Improve Fairness

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Source: forbes.com 11/11/25 A Growing Focus on Post-Prison Supervision In recent discussions on criminal justice reform, attention has shifted from sentencing laws to what happens after prison. The federal supervised release system, originally intended to help people transition successfully back into the community, has become a major point of debate among policymakers, researchers, and reform advocates. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently wrote in a Fox News commentary that improving how the United States manages supervision after incarceration could be “the next frontier in criminal justice reform.” His statement aligns with recent reports from…

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Abolish or Reform? An Analysis of Post-Release Supervision

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Source: papers.ssrn.com 6/14/24 Abstract At year-end 2021, there were nearly four million individuals serving a term of probation, parole, or post-release supervision in the United States. This paper uses a unique and detailed dataset to study two distinct changes to state law that eliminated and then reinstated post-release supervision for a subset of the population released from Kansas prisons. Each of these changes occurred in very different periods of criminal justice policy (2000 and 2013 respectively), but yielded the same result: post-release supervision caused large increases in reimprisonment with no…

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Community supervision, once intended to help offenders, contributes more to mass incarceration

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[usatoday.com – 11/19/20] Justice officials are recognizing that community supervision can be a tripwire that perpetuates incarceration based on crimeless technical violations Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Vincent Schiraldi Opinion contributors One of the first people to die of COVID-19 in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail system was Raymond Rivera — a 55-year-old father and husband who lost his life in April. The “offense” that ultimately resulted in a death sentence for Rivera? Leaving a drug program without permission — a minor technical violation of the parole he was on for stealing a motorcycle…

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CA: CDCR community supervision plan aimed to protect inmates [except PC 290 sex offenders], staff from spread of COVID-19

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[bakersfield.com – 6/17/20] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will implement a community supervision program to eligible inmates in order to further protect staff and inmates at state prisons from the spread of COVID-19. CDCR’s community supervision plan will be for inmates who have 180 days or less to serve on their sentences and aren’t currently serving time for domestic violence or a violent or serious crime. Those required to register as a sex offender under Penal Code 290 won’t be eligible. Read more  

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