The Orange County Probation Department (OC Probation) celebrated the 25th annual Pretrial, Probation, and Parole Supervision (PPPS) Week during July 21-July 27, 2024. This weeklong event, recognized nationally, celebrates the dedication and critical contributions of over 90,000 community corrections ...
A probation officer is very similar to a parole officer in that both types of law enforcement deal with convicts, but probation officers primarily deal with convicts of lesser crimes who have not been recently discharged from state or federal prison. Probation officers work with local, state, an...
(The rapper, it’s worth noting, has launched a criminal-justice reform organization with JAY-Z and proposed a probation and parole reform bill in Pennsylvania.) Ultimately, Free Meek is a tribute to a well-fought battle, and a call to arms for those still to come....
By the close of 2020, 3.9 million adults in the U.S. were on probation, compared to the 862,100 on parole (Kaeble,2021) and 1.2 million in the nation’s state and federal prisons (Carson,2021). For the majority of adults who are on “active” supervision,Footnote1probation typically ...