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With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Shortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole-and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both-from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City Imagine if probation didn't exist. And I came to you with$80 million and 30,000 people the courts considered troubled and troubling. Andyou could do anything you wantedwith that money to make New York Citysafer and help people turn their lives around. Would you go out and hire a thousandcivil service-protected bureaucrats to supervise people as they piss in a cuponce a week, and to tell them to go forth and sin no more? -Vincent Schiraldi's Job Interview with NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately 4 million more who are on probation and parole-monitored by the state at great expense and at risk of being sent to prison at the whim of a probation or parole officer for the least imaginable infraction? , he combines firsthand experience with deep research on the inadequately explored practices of probation and parole, to illustrate how these forms of state supervision have strayed from their original goal of providing constructive and rehabilitative alternatives to prison. They have become instead, Schiraldi argues, a ""recidivism trap"" for people trying to lead productive lives in the wake of a criminal conviction. incarceration, have little impact on crime rates, and needlessly disrupt countless lives. Ultimately, he argues that they should be dramatically downsized or even abolished completely.

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Praise for Mass Supervision: This is a real moment for parole and probation in America. This book chronicles the rise of mass supervision and the birth of the movement to reform it. From the injustices I experienced on probation and the #FreeMeek movement that resulted in my release, to the experiences of millions of Americans who are tormented by the supervision-to-prison pipeline, to the many changes REFORM Alliance and others have already brought about, this book takes us from the creation of the system, through its transformations and reforms, and directs us to the hard work remaining to free men and women still unjustly trapped on supervision. Schiraldi captures how far we've come in the movement to fix parole and probation and reminds us how much more we can do if we stand together against injustice. --Meek Mill, recording artist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the REFORM Alliance When I hired Vinny Schiraldi to run New York City's probation department, I wanted someone who would shake up a broken system--and that's exactly what we got. He played a critical role in helping our administration reduce both incarceration and crime to record lows, and the experiences and insights he shares in Mass Supervision hold lessons for the whole country. --Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Praise for Mass Supervision: This is a real moment for parole and probation in America. This book chronicles the rise of mass supervision and the birth of the movement to reform it. From the injustices I experienced on probation and the #FreeMeek movement that resulted in my release, to the experiences of millions of Americans who are tormented by the supervision-to-prison pipeline, to the many changes REFORM Alliance and others have already brought about, this book takes us from the creation of the system, through its transformations and reforms, and directs us to the hard work remaining to free men and women still unjustly trapped on supervision. Schiraldi captures how far we've come in the movement to fix parole and probation and reminds us how much more we can do if we stand together against injustice. -Meek Mill, recording artist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the REFORM Alliance When I hired Vinny Schiraldi to run New York City's probation department, I wanted someone who would shake up a broken system-and that's exactly what we got. He played a critical role in helping our administration reduce both incarceration and crime to record lows, and the experiences and insights he shares in Mass Supervision hold lessons for the whole country. -Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Praise for Mass Supervision: When I hired Vinny Schiraldi to run New York City's probation department, I wanted someone who would shake up a broken system-and that's exactly what we got. He played a critical role in helping our administration reduce both incarceration and crime to record lows, and the experiences and insights he shares in Mass Supervision hold lessons for the whole country. -Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York (2002-2013) and founder of Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies This is a real moment for parole and probation in America. This book chronicles the rise of mass supervision and the birth of the movement to reform it. From the injustices I experienced on probation and the #FreeMeek movement that resulted in my release, to the experiences of millions of Americans who are tormented by the supervision-to-prison pipeline, to the many changes REFORM Alliance and others have already brought about, this book takes us from the creation of the system, through its transformations and reforms, and directs us to the hard work remaining to free men and women still unjustly trapped on supervision. Schiraldi captures how far we've come in the movement to fix parole and probation and reminds us how much more we can do if we stand together against injustice. -Robert Meek Mill Williams, recording artist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the REFORM Alliance When I hired Vinny Schiraldi to run New York City's probation department, I wanted someone who would shake up a broken system-and that's exactly what we got. He played a critical role in helping our administration reduce both incarceration and crime to record lows, and the experiences and insights he shares in Mass Supervision hold lessons for the whole country. -Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York (2002-2013) and founder of Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies

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Vincent Schiraldi is the founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and the Justice Policy Institute. He has served as director of juvenile corrections in Washington, DC, commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation, and commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction. He has been a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-founded the Columbia University Justice Lab. He is currently secretary of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services and has written extensively for outlets ranging from the New York Times to The Marshall Project. The author of Mass Supervision (The New Press), he lives just outside of Washington, DC.

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