[Op Ed] NY Daily News: Reforming parole yields win-win

New York spends billions operating prisons and jails with disappointing public safety benefits and severe racial inequities. Our state sends more people back to prison for technical parole violations — things like missing appointments or staying out past curfew — than any other state. [...] This is a costly and ineffective way to improve safety and help people succeed after prison — the two purposes of parole. Our just-released research found that, in 2019, New York spent at least $319 million incarcerating people for parole violations.