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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a parole and probation officer in Multnomah County, Ore., Andrew Skidmore can be tough when he has to be. He is trained in hand-to-hand combat. He likes guns enough to have a detailed schematic of ...

Sentence lengths have generally increased since 2020. The 2023 Protect Arkansas Act, which reduced parole eligibility and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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