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But our new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E@HRW\u003C\/a\u003E\/\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E@ACLU\u003C\/a\u003E report shows they instead drive high numbers of people\u2014disproportionately Black and brown\u2014right back to US jails and prisons. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/utNjyD1TGj\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/utNjyD1TGj\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/PmYc7pEaIh\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/PmYc7pEaIh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Allie Frankel (@abfrankel) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/abfrankel\/status\/1289214367481786368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EJuly 31, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found that locking people up for supervision violations upends their lives without meaningfully addressing the underlying factors that led to violations\u2014often, poverty, a lack of resources, and racial bias,\u201d she wrote.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt a press conference for the report\u0027s release on Friday, people who had previously been on probation\u00a0or parole \u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wesa.fm\/post\/report-probation-parole-feed-mass-incarceration-and-problem-particularly-acute-pa#stream\/0\u0022\u003Etold reporters\u003C\/a\u003E how supervision trapped them in a maze that made it difficult to move on with their lives. Speakers with personal testimonies included Lewis Conway,\u00a0\u00a0national campaign strategist at the ACLU, who spent\u00a012 years on parole.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cParole becomes a life sentence,\u201d Conway said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost as if the original sentence is never-ending.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHuman Rights Watch and the ACLU recommend that governments divest from supervision and incarceration and invest in jobs, housing, and health care instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/07\/31\/us-probation-parole-feed-mass-incarceration-crisis\u0022\u003ELearn more about the report here \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null},{"command":"insert","method":"prepend","selector":".js-view-dom-id-blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__375997__en","data":"","settings":null}]