Marcella Soto had four children by the time she was 22 and was on and off welfare during the years they were growing up. By 2018, she was working a government job in California when she was charged ...

Arkansas’s prison population grew faster than the population itself over the last 15 years, even as overall crime has ...

On Sept. 17, 2021, when I was running the notorious Rikers Island jails, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Less Is More act into law, reducing parole revocations for non-criminal, technical violations.

Thousands of Missourians are currently on probation and parole, and while the two terms are often used together, they affect a person’s life in completely different ways. Mary Beth Lammey, the policy ...

Right now, scores of Americans are paying for the privilege of being under probation or parole supervision — and many of them are at the risk of being further entrenched in the justice system and even ...

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 ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has stepped in to stop the release of a man serving prison time for stalking. Nessel on ...

According to court filings, Solomon had four prior felony convictions and 13 misdemeanor convictions at the time of his ...

Under the spotlight on the state's corrections department cast since the spring passage of prison reform, 23 new probation and parole officers graduated Thursday in what state Corrections Secretary ...

A total of 74 arrests were made for misdemeanor violations and felony violations. Law enforcement officers located and seized a variety of illegal drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, ...