From Vera:
The United States incarcerates 1.8 million people—but that figure doesn’t capture the full reach of the criminal legal system. Another 3.7 million people are also mired in the system because they are on probation or parole.
Probation, considered an alternative to incarceration, is a court-ordered period of supervision in the community for people convicted of criminal charges. At any given time, 3 million people are on probation, making it the most common criminal sentence in the United States.
A smaller but still significant number of people—approximately 700,000—are on parole, a form of early release from prison that allows people to serve the remainder of their sentences under community supervision. Continue reading >>>
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