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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Advocates, formerly incarcerated people and family members of incarcerated men and women are calling on state lawmakers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arkansas’s prison population grew faster than the population itself over the last 15 years, even as overall crime has ...

BALTIMORE- After the murder of a Maryland parole and probation officer while on the job, home check-ins have been suspended statewide, and union leaders are calling for top officials to be fired.

A grand ceremony was held at the Directorate General Office of the Punjab Probation and Parole Service on Wednesday to mark Christmas ...