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 ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Missourians on parole and probation cannot vote until their sentence is completed, unless the person ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio lawmaker wants judges to consider a defendant’s immigration status when they set conditions for bail or hand down criminal sentences. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Josh Williams, R ...

Criminal-justice experts say Mississippi's parole and probation systems, designed as alternatives to incarceration, are instead functioning as pipelines back to prison. The state's high revocation ...

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 ...

Unlikely allies worked to pass probation reform bills last year that created a workgroup to refine the proposal this year. The group, as well as a coalition of criminal justice reform organizations, ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin has proclaimed July 20-26 as Virginia Pretrial, Probation, and Parole Supervision Week. The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) celebrates its probation and parole ...

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 ...

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 ...