Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

"Mass Supervision is a hard book to categorize. It’s part policy argument, part memoir, part historical analysis. In other hands, that combination could result in something unbearably wonky or disjointed. But Vincent Schiraldi makes it work with a fascinating – sometimes devastating – argument: that people who care about mass incarceration in the U.S. should also be concerned about the way that probation and parole ensnare an enormous, vulnerable population into cycles of exploitation, surveillance and poverty."