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More than a decade ago, a Democratic-majority New Hampshire Legislature passed a short-lived effort to reduce the number of people jailed for violating their parole.

Today, amid new data showing high proportions of parole violators behind bars, some lawmakers are considering revisiting that model.

Back in 2010, New Hampshire had seen 20 years of stable, low crime rates, lawmakers noted in their preamble to the reform bill. Yet the state’s prison population had increased by 31 percent since 1990, the preamble continued, and the number of parole violators sent back to prison had jumped 50 percent since 2000.

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