Throughout this chapter not only did I gain a better understating in parole, but I also learned that more than one-third of prisoners are under parole supervision all with the purpose to adjust into society. Moreover, with previous knowledge in the chapters I managed to understand that one of the reasons why corrections like parole exist is not only to improve individuals, but to also avoid prison overcrowding which is why about half of the population on parole release are under mandatory release. Mandatory release is part of a release mechanism that consists of inmates serving majority of their sentence time minus the “good time” while discretionary release is boundaries set by a sentence and law. Throughout the past decades parole has become
