People sentenced for similar offences are more likely to offend after a short prison sentence than if they had been given a community sanction.
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For the more than 3 million Americans on probation or parole, rules and regulations often serve as hidden traps to reincarceration.
Properly resourced probation services, drug and alcohol treatment and helping people build their social networks can all play a role.
‘I no longer exist, I have become a construct of their imagination. It is the ultimate act of dehumanisation.’
A youth group gives juvenile offenders a chance to advocate for change in the justice system.
The UK government is introducing polygraph tests for convicted terrorists on probation.
A recent damning report on probation shows the need to reassess outsourcing by the public sector.
The British justice secretary’s proposal to make short prison sentences a last resort is the right idea at the worst possible time.
Programs that allow individuals to be supervised in the community instead of in prison are growing in a way that is not sustainable and is contributing to mass incarceration rather than relieving it.
New research shows how the charity sector has been sidelined in the Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
A study of 100,000 convicted felons shows why rethinking parole may be the key to reversing mass incarceration.
Probation services in the UK are straining under a system that prioritises profit above rehabilitation.
An overhaul of the probation system has left the justice system foundering.
Probation staff need to gain the trust of prisoners.
The privatisation of the probation service is failing both offenders and victims.
New research suggests 400 people have died from suspected suicide within 48 hours of leaving police detention in the last seven years.
The US is facing a silent crisis on prison probation, and the UK is following its lead.
The success of probation programmes based on swift and certain sanctions has led to more than 160 such schemes operating in the US. Australia should consider whether the model might work here too.
The government faced civil unrest almost as soon as it came to office. Then it decided to cause some disruption of its own.
A very significant moment in the history of the UK criminal justice system passed when the government forced through the first stage of its privatisation of probation services. Since then there has been…
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