To improve public safety, promote better outcomes for people on probation and parole, and decrease the costs associated with returns to prison and jail, we need a fundamental shift in the focus of community supervision from catching failure to promoting success. We support research to better understand the reasons for probation and parole violations and how we can reduce them, as well as advocacy that uncovers and remedies economic and racial disparities. We’re also working to help implement evidence-based practices and state policy change that ensure the right people are on supervision and the interventions they receive address their risks and needs.