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 ...

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 ...

Sentence lengths have generally increased since 2020. The 2023 Protect Arkansas Act, which reduced parole eligibility and ...

When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who ...

Senate Bill 70, or the Public Safety Improvement Act, sailed with nearly unanimous support through the South Dakota Legislature in 2013. The goal was to curb the growing prison population and keep non ...

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 ...

With critical election races happening for Democrats, the White House is trying to get across the message that defunding the police is not a Democratic stance, and also that probation and parole ...

In 13 states, one out of three prisoners is incarcerated for supervision violations. Probation and parole were designed as alternatives to time in prison, but they often end up having the opposite ...

Advocates, formerly incarcerated people and family members of incarcerated men and women are calling on state lawmakers to ...

As a parole and probation officer in Multnomah County, Ore., Andrew Skidmore can be tough when he has to be. He is trained in hand-to-hand combat. He likes guns enough to have a detailed schematic of ...

After 45 reconsiderations of sentences for those who committed crimes at ages 18–20, the parole board leaves dozens — ...