Highlights There is no national strategy for parole and probation, there is no research consensus. Programs routinely fail. Recidivism is extremely high. Author Leonard Adam…
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Telling The Truth About Parole and Probation
Highlights Are we misleading the public about parole and probation? If we can’t start with the truth, we are the problem, not the solution. Author…
View More Telling The Truth About Parole and ProbationDoes Anything Work in Parole and Probation?
Observation As we celebrate parole and probation week, don’t agents (and society) deserve more than a system that seems hopelessly adrift? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
View More Does Anything Work in Parole and Probation?50 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…
View More 50 Percent on Probation-56 Percent on Parole Complete SupervisionReentry Courts-No Difference in Arrests-New DOJ Study
Prison Cells Observations Reentry court recidivism, like most offender rehabilitation and reentry programs, show limited results as to new arrests, revocations and returns to…
View More Reentry Courts-No Difference in Arrests-New DOJ StudyIs Probation Set Up To Fail?
DC Court House Observations Is probation merely an instrument to inexpensively process millions of offenders? Within 3 years, 46 percent of felony probationers had been…
View More Is Probation Set Up To Fail?GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Observations Electronic monitoring data on reductions of technical violations and returns to prison indicate the possibility of a more effective and humane way to supervise…
View More GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?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 FeloniesCan 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…
View More Can We Cut Probation Caseloads by 50 Percent?Offender Recidivism: What Works-What’s Hogwash
Subtitle We may be making progress as to reducing recidivism in the United States. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national…
View More Offender Recidivism: What Works-What’s Hogwash