Bernie Curtis
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Chief
Nevada Divison of Parole and Probation
Nevada
Archive for the ‘Probation’ Category
Dr. James Austin
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010President
JFA Institute
Nevada
Asstin@aol.com
IL Probation Cuts Force Caseload Up, Endanger Public Safety
Friday, February 26th, 2010SC Sentencing Reform Commission Report Expected Today
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010CA County To Arm Some Probation Officers; Krisberg Criticizes Idea
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010A Year After Shake-Up, Probation Officer Shortages Persist In NC
Monday, February 1st, 2010A year after new administrators vowed to improve North Carolina’s crippled probation system, staffing shortage are even worse, reports the Raleigh News and Observer. Despite a top-level shake-up designed to correct years of poor management, a reliance on outdated technology and chronically high caseloads for officers, 141 street-level positions are vacant, up 32 from roughly a year ago. An 8 percent vacancy rate coupled with a 10 percent turnover rate mean remaining officers are responsible for picking up the slack. (more…)
MA Gov. Patrick Aims To Take Control Of Probation From Courts
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010The Future of Sentencing, Corrections and Crime Reduction in Florida: A Conversation Between Journalists and Policymakers
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
On October 30-31, 2009, journalists from across the country gathered at The Poynter Pavillion in St. Petersburg, Fla., for a reporting seminar co-sponsored by the Pew Center on the States and John Jay College of Justice’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice.
“The Future of Sentencing, Corrections and Crime Reduction in Florida” featured panelists including St. Petersburg mayor Rick Baker; David Utter, the Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Florida Initiatives; and Tim Ryan, the Director of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department.
Resources from the Conference
Conference Agenda: With panelists’ names and associations
Fellows Stories
“Legislators look west for prison solution” by Jamal Thalji of St. Petersburg Times
“Courtrooms adjusting to a new Florida Supreme Court order against restraining juvenile defendants” by Colleen Jenkins of the St. Petersburg Times
“Faster Path to Adult Jail?” by Colleen Jenkins of the St. Petersburg Times
Promising Results In Study Of Hawaii Tough Probation Test
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The first scientific evaluation of a Hawaii experiment in tough probation supervision show promising results. Hawaii’s Opportunity for Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) promises swift and certain punishment for violations of probation conditions. A study released this week by the U.S. National Instiute of Justice said that 21 percent of HOPE participants were arrested over a year, compared with 47 percent of similar convicts who were not in HOPE. The study found that 13 percent of HOPE probationers failed drug tests, compared with 56 percent of others. (more…)
U.S. Prison, Jail Population Continues Upward At Slower Pace
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009The nation’s correctional population–prisons, jails, probation, and parole–increased .5 percent last year, about one third of the average annual growth rate since 2000, says the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. At the end of last year, there were 7.3 million people under correctional supervision, including 5.1 million supervised in the community on probation or parole and 2.3 million in prison or jail. (more…)