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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senate Bill 70, or the Public Safety Improvement Act, sailed with nearly unanimous support through the South Dakota Legislature in 2013. The goal was to curb the growing prison population and keep non ...

When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who ...

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 ...

A Charleston man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime back in November was arrested again for a probation violation ...

During the November election, voters across the country approved a slew of initiatives to reform police departments, curb the failed war on drugs and reduce incarceration. But millions of people are ...

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 ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe has appointed a second Jefferson City man to the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole. Christopher Schappe, a private practice attorney and former legal counsel to the state Senate ...