Research at the University of Michigan indicates a key driver of the high incarceration rates is someone on parole being returned to prison — not for an additional crime, but for a technical violation of parole.

Jeffrey Morenoff, a research professor and director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, joined Stateside to talk about his new research.

Click the link below to listent to Stateside’s conversation with Jeffrey Morenoff, research professor and director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Listen to Michigan Radio interview here.