Marcella Soto had four children by the time she was 22 and was on and off welfare during the years they were growing up. By 2018, she was working a government job in California when she was charged ...

The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...

Right now, scores of Americans are paying for the privilege of being under probation or parole supervision — and many of them are at the risk of being further entrenched in the justice system and even ...

On Sept. 17, 2021, when I was running the notorious Rikers Island jails, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Less Is More act into law, reducing parole revocations for non-criminal, technical violations.

Thousands of Missourians are currently on probation and parole, and while the two terms are often used together, they affect a person’s life in completely different ways. Mary Beth Lammey, the policy ...

Heavy caseloads, job stress, and biases can strain relations between parole and probation officers and their clients, upping offenders’ likelihood of landing back behind bars. On a more hopeful note, ...

Do you want to protect your community and bring about change and rehabilitation on a personal level? A parole officer’s role combines outreach and communication with criminal justice—but what exactly ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe has appointed a second Jefferson City man to the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole. Christopher Schappe, a private practice attorney and former legal counsel to the state Senate ...

The secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services appointed three interim leaders Friday to head the agency’s probation and parole division following the on-duty ...

A Charleston man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime back in November was arrested again for a probation violation ...

Under the spotlight on the state's corrections department cast since the spring passage of prison reform, 23 new probation and parole officers graduated Thursday in what state Corrections Secretary ...

Christina Viviano's work brought her out to Yardley in August. She was at the condo complex off Main Street to perform a probation check, and help, if she could, convince the man to attend a court ...