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By the numbers: Real crimes send paroled offenders back to prison — not ‘over-criminalization’

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The Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit focused on “over-criminalization,” declares that “non-criminal (or ‘technical’) violations are the main reason for incarceration of people on probation and parole.”

Other advocacy groups, like the Council of State Governments and the Vera Institute, agree.

This sounds bad: Technical parole violations include things like missing an appointment with one’s parole agent, violating a curfew or skipping a treatment session.

Shouldn’t prison cells be reserved not for insignificant rule infringements, but for real crimes?

A nationwide survey of state prisoners from 1979 to 2016 found that people incarcerated for TPVs alone made up only about 12.5% of the prison population.

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And as our own and others’ research finds, many of these TPVs are preceded by real crimes, often leading to arrests.

We studied all TPV cases of reincarceration of parolees in Pennsylvania for a period of 22 months, from Jan. 1, 2024, to Oct. 31, 2025.

Of the 9,517 parolees sent back to prison during this period, 58.8% (5,596) were returned for a TPV.

But it turns out that 18.7% of those, or 1,047 parolees, had also been arrested for a new offense.

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