In the effort to release people from jails to stem coronavirus outbreaks behind bars, those jailed for probation and parole violations have been an obvious choice. They’re locked up not for committing ...

The government has enacted prison reforms, but there's still more to be done for the incarcerated population after release. According to Pew Research, starting in 2007, policymakers initiated ...

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 ...

Today, there are twice as many people supervised on parole or probation as are incarcerated in the U.S. Parole is a period of being supervised in the community following early release from prison for ...

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, a ...

The whole point of probation is to keep people out of jail, and the whole point of parole is to get them out of prison. If we can bring them home under supervision, the thinking goes, their return to ...

Vincent Schiraldi is former commissioner of the New York City Departments of Probation and Correction and the author of “Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom.” ...

Closed courts, faulty technology and delays in post-release programs are among a range of barriers keeping a population prime for release behind bars. Seven months after Tammie Lewis was granted ...

According to Pew Trust, across the United States, there are nearly five million people on either parole or probation. That’s close to one out of every fifty adults! Not only are those people part of ...

With critical election races happening for Democrats, the White House is trying to get across the message that defunding the police is not a Democratic stance, and also that probation and parole ...

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 ...