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Torres is one of the 437,000 people on parole or probation in Texas ... View Parole Offices in a full screen map Officers feel the strain as well. The Texas Observer spoke with two parole officers ...

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 ...

But in his new book, Mass Supervision, Vincent Schiraldi argues that in those conversations, people often neglect to think about probation and parole — two of the biggest feeders to the U.S.'s ...

Out of six million people in the U.S. criminal justice system, nearly four million of them are on probation or parole. And the impact of such a rampant practice is clear. “In any given state, you'll ...

Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom.” Our national system of supervised parole and probation is a failure, and it’s past time to rethink it. Last week, VPM revealed that ...

In 2021, there were more than twice as many people on either probation or parole as those living in cells. On the surface, that doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. On the contrary, probation ...

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union released a guide today, outlining steps that defense attorneys can take to ensure people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to successfully ...

Angelo Gomez, Jr., left, chief parole supervisor of field services for the Massachusetts Parole Board, and Pamerson Ifill, commissioner of probation, both took their jobs late in 2023. They both say ...

The state’s probation and parole system is no effective alternative to prison, the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana said in a new report, calling it “an onerous regime that is ...