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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Nineteen new probation and parole officers have joined the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections. These new officers took their oaths during a swearing-in ceremony ...

Starting pay for a probation/parole agent is $37,185 per year. Starting pay for a probation/parole agent trainee is $31,567.82. Starting pay for a correctional officer trainee is $27,149 annually. In ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - There are new concerns about how probation and parole is, or is not working in Missouri. KY3 has been investigating a new state system for several months, one six local ...

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 ...