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 SupervisionPer 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 FelonsProbation 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?#MeToo, Sex Offenders And Probation
Highlights Buzzfeed provides an article stating that a fraction of sex offenders get probation. In my experience, most on sex offender registries got probation. How do…
View More #MeToo, Sex Offenders And ProbationUS Correctional Population Declines By 726,000
Summary The overall correctional population dropped by 726,000 since the peak year of 2007. There were 111,000 fewer people in prison since the peak year…
View More US Correctional Population Declines By 726,00050 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…
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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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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.…
View More Three Percent of Americans Have Been To Prison- Eight Percent Have Felonies
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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Despite Reform Efforts, Probation Hasn’t Changed Much Since 2005
Observations The probation population from 2005 to 2015 included more active cases when they were supposed to decline due to diversions. Treatment doesn’t exist beyond…
View More Despite Reform Efforts, Probation Hasn’t Changed Much Since 2005Huge Decrease for Parolees Returning to Prison
Subtitles Huge decrease in those on parole returning to prison. Approximately 1 in 53 adults in the United States was under community supervision at year-end…
View More Huge Decrease for Parolees Returning to PrisonWhat Works in Parole and Probation?
By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies. Former Senior Specialist for Crime Prevention for the Department…
View More What Works in Parole and Probation?4.7 Million Americans on Parole and Probation
A new Department of Justice report presents data on adult offenders under community supervision while on probation or parole in 2013. The report presents trends…
View More 4.7 Million Americans on Parole and ProbationProbation Declines for Fifth Straight Year-Parole Declines in 2012
The number of adults under community supervision declined by about 40,500 during 2012, down to 4,781,300 offenders at yearend 2012.
View More Probation Declines for Fifth Straight Year-Parole Declines in 2012Seven Million People in US Adult Corrections
The total U.S. correctional population (on probation, parole, in prison or jail) decreased for the fourth consecutive year during 2012 (down 51,000 offenders or 0.7 percent), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was the smallest decrease in the population since 2009.
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