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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the two dozen KY probation and parole officers who lost their jobs, some were accused of ignoring their duty to supervise offenders.

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 ...

Lane County may have to defund its programs for parole and probation, jail and post-prison re-entry because of low state funding, county officials said in a Sept. 9 discussion. The cuts would lay off ...