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The never-ending sentence: How parole and probation fuel mass incarceration

  • Written by Lucius Couloute, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trinity College

The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local facilities. Another 3.7 million remain under what scholars call “correctional control” through probation or parole supervision.

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