A bill with bipartisan support to restore voting rights to people on probation and parole passes in the Missouri House.

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.

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 ...

That was one of the many voices of people on probation in support of a bill that would allow for a kind of early release from supervision-- if they fulfill all their requirements after a year. The ...

In 13 states, one out of three prisoners is incarcerated for supervision violations. Probation and parole were designed as alternatives to time in prison, but they often end up having the opposite ...

Vincent Schiraldi receives funding from Galaxy Gives and the Arnold Foundation. He is former Commissioner of New York City Probation. Today, there are twice as many people supervised on parole or ...

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 ...

When Melissa Gass, a mother of five in central Pennsylvania, was 10, she was in a car crash, and her head slammed into the windshield. Ever since, she’s suffered seizures, which occur with weekly and ...

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Kentucky probation and parole officers practice their shooting in 2022. The officers are sworn law enforcement agents who carry badges and guns and have arrest authority over offenders on their ...

Multnomah County probation and parole officers are jailing fewer people for minor parole violations than they did in 2019, but those who do land behind bars are staying much longer, according to a new ...

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 ...