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 ...

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

Multnomah County probation and parole officers are jailing fewer people for minor parole violations than they did in 2019, but those who do land behind bars are staying much longer, according to a new ...

Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward declined to meet one-on-one with the Indiana Parole Board, saying he wanted to spare the family of his victim from traveling to the state prison in Michigan City for the ...

The family of a man shot dead by a parole officer say new video contradicts official state police accounts he was to blame. Marchello Woodard, 43, was gunned down by his parole officer in Erie, ...