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 ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In 1994, a 76-year-old Boston woman, at home to help care for her sick husband, opened the door to a repairman she had worked with multiple times in the past. She welcomed him inside, but as soon as ...

Washington County is poised to approve a new policy allowing parole and probation officers to carry a gun on the job, if they want to. In an unusual twist, the policy change does not need to pass ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP).

Lane County may have to defund its programs for parole and probation, jail and post-prison re-entry because of low state funding, county officials said in a Sept. 9 discussion. The cuts would lay off ...