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# Parole Never Made Sense to Us
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1302/
- Published: 2005-06-09T14:59:14.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-09T14:59:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

The Urban Institute recently compared rates of recidivism among ex-convicts who were paroled with those among ex-convicts who were released with no strings attached:

> The study found that the recidivism rate among prisoners released unconditionally was virtually the same as that among "mandatory parolees," or prisoners for whom parole is part of a fixed sentence: 62 percent of the former and 61 percent of the latter were re-arrested at least once within two years.

[Link](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200507/primarysources?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).