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 ...

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 ...

North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Control Commission asks for more support as lawmakers review the state’s probation and parole system.

The killings of Iryna Zarutska and Zoe Welsh have raised questions about North Carolina's criminal justice system. The men charged in their deaths have lengthy criminal histories and mental illnesses.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...