Around half of all new admissions to Missouri's prisons come from people who have violated their probation or parole. Those cases sent more than 5,000 Missourians back to prison last year — and a lack ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Hamilton County says it has to keep tabs on about 3,000 people on adult probation on any given day and now the probation department is reorganizing its system to keep track of them ...

At least seven probation and parole officers in recent years crossed professional boundaries with felons, according to state ...

A wanted man on parole and probation for attempted homicide was taken into custody in Pittsburgh on Friday.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new report from the Multnomah County Auditor's office examines the state of jail sanctions for people under probation or parole, finding that they've substantially increased in ...

Washington County is poised to approve a new policy allowing parole and probation officers to carry a gun on the job, if they want to. In an unusual twist, the policy change does not need to pass ...

A local man, 74, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2010 after trying to hire a hitman to kill a couple is headed ...

An inmate lays on a bed in a jail cell. The panel established by Gov. Mike Kehoe to write rules for how long people who break the law must stay in prison may be violating the law itself by meeting in ...

Alabama may soon let prisoners have a say at their parole hearings, but their original crime will carry more weight under new guidelines. The three-member Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles voted on ...

Following a Jan. 12 review of Massachusetts’ criminal justice system, The Council of State Governments confirmed that two in five people released from the Commonwealth’s prisons are freed without the ...

Julio Gutierrez, 35, had his probation revoked on Friday, January 16, after multiple violations of his Community Supervision ...