Pennsylvania has one of the nation’s highest rates of supervision, driven by unusual laws that leave judges unchecked. But many people fail, ending up in jail or in a cycle of ever more probation.
By Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell
October 24, 2019
THE PROBLEM WITH PROBATION
In Pennsylvania, as across the country, crime rates have fallen to their lowest point in decades.But over that same time, the rate of incarceration in Pennsylvania state prisons and county jails nearly quadrupled …… while the number on probation or parole also grew almost four times larger, to 290,000 people.
Counting jail, prison, probation, and parole, Pennsylvania now has the nation’s second-highest rate of people under correctional control. Probation and parole account for three-quarters of that — a phenomenon critics of mass incarceration call “mass supervision.”
Nationwide, one in 55 adults is on probation or parole.In Pennsylvania, that’s one in 35 adults.In Philadelphia: one in 23 adults.African American adults in Philadelphia are disproportionately impacted. One in 14 is under supervision.
Philadelphia’s county supervision rate is the highest of any big city — and 12 times the rate of New York City.PENNSYLVANIA PROBATION, PAROLE, AND INCARCERATION RATES PER 100,000 Probation and parole rate
Note: Calculations for parole and probation rates were estimated for years 1991-93.RATE OF CORRECTIONAL CONTROL PER 100,000
SOURCE: The Prison Policy Initiative, “Correctional Control 2018”
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