I agree with Revamped. Sure, probation and parole may look appealing on paper, but at the end of the day you are making more players do more work for an outcome that may not be worth that time or effort.
“Hello I’m in jail for 30 minutes, can I be released on parole after 10 minutes?”
“Sure, but we have to schedule weekly checkups to make sure you’re doing good otherwise we’ll send you back to prison for maybe 40 minutes.”
At that point just sit there for the full 30 minutes and get some lunch or dinner or take a shit.
However, that isn’t to say that I’m against other sentencing alternatives in general. We are actually working on a Bill for exactly that. The difference is these alternatives will be considered and imposed by a judge (already their job!) and probably won’t have any lingering work to do afterwards.
There are lots of technical and small details to consider, especially reworking the entire “reoffenders clause”, but that’s the general gist of it.