Highlights There is a new report, Probation and Parole in the United States, issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice.…
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The Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation Supervision
Highlights There is little indicating that “evidence-based” programs work or that revocations are mostly for technical violations, or that the great bulk of our resources…
View More The Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation SupervisionAre Historic Declines In Offender Accountability-Correctional Numbers Connected To Rising Violence?
Highlights The incarcerated population fell to its lowest level since 2003. The adult probation rate is at its lowest point in 35 years. Multiple sources…
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Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising Violence
Highlights Violent crime and serious violent crime began to increase by 28 percent in 2015 per the US Department of Justice. The US had the…
View More Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising ViolencePer DOJ-Increasing Percentage On Parole and Probation Are Violent Or Felons
Highlights Parole and probation agents are supervising and police officers are encountering an offender population containing more felonies and histories of violence. Most on probation…
View More Per DOJ-Increasing Percentage On Parole and Probation Are Violent Or FelonsThe US Correctional Population Reaches A 19 Year Low-Why?
Highlights There is a 19-year low in the number of persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems. The correctional population between 2008 and 2018…
View More The US Correctional Population Reaches A 19 Year Low-Why?Probation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 Felonies
Highlights “The leniency shown to these bad actors by the judicial system results in recidivistic crimes that prey on the public…” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Is the…
View More Probation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 FeloniesIs Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?
Highlights The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that probation is a harsh, overzealous trap. But felony cases are flooding the probation system. Recidivism rates are high. More…
View More Is Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?Parole And Probation Revocations For New Crimes And Technical Violations
Highlights The collective data indicate that most offenders revoked on parole and probation were violated for new crimes, not technical violations. I investigated many cases…
View More Parole And Probation Revocations For New Crimes And Technical ViolationsProsecutors Now Run Parole and Probation
Highlights Reform-minded prosecutors are setting policy for parole and parole and probation agencies. Change should come from research or the US Department of Justice or…
View More Prosecutors Now Run Parole and ProbationDoes Bail Reform Include Unsupervised Defendants?
Highlights If we are going to release the vast majority of defendants without an agency’s supervision and assistance, we are asking for the downfall of…
View More Does Bail Reform Include Unsupervised Defendants?New Group Seeks To Reform Parole and Probation
Highlights There is no national strategy for parole and probation, there is no research consensus. Programs routinely fail. Recidivism is extremely high. Author Leonard Adam…
View More New Group Seeks To Reform Parole and ProbationTelling The Truth About Parole and Probation
Highlights Are we misleading the public about parole and probation? If we can’t start with the truth, we are the problem, not the solution. Author…
View More Telling The Truth About Parole and ProbationDoes Anything Work in Parole and Probation?
Observation As we celebrate parole and probation week, don’t agents (and society) deserve more than a system that seems hopelessly adrift? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
View More Does Anything Work in Parole and Probation?50 Percent on Probation-56 Percent on Parole Complete Supervision
Summary Approximately 50 percent of those on state probation completed their community supervision in 2016. Approximately 56 percent of those on state parole completed their community…
View More 50 Percent on Probation-56 Percent on Parole Complete Supervision
Reentry Courts-No Difference in Arrests-New DOJ Study
Observations Reentry court recidivism, like most offender rehabilitation and reentry programs, show limited results as to new arrests, revocations and returns to prison. Author…
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Is Probation Set Up To Fail?
Observations Is probation merely an instrument to inexpensively process millions of offenders? Within 3 years, 46 percent of felony probationers had been sent to prison…
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GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Observations Electronic monitoring data on reductions of technical violations and returns to prison indicate the possibility of a more effective and humane way to…
View More GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Three Percent of Americans Have Been To Prison- Eight Percent Have Felonies
Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies. Interviewed multiple times by every national news outlet.…
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Can We Cut Probation Caseloads by 50 Percent?
Observations So the bottom line is that we can “manage” the probation population by limiting interactions. But unlike the advocates, I’m not going to tell…
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