When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who ...

During the November election, voters across the country approved a slew of initiatives to reform police departments, curb the failed war on drugs and reduce incarceration. But millions of people are ...

This investigation was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, The Dallas Morning News and NBC 5. Subscribe to read ...

Heavy caseloads, job stress, and biases can strain relations between parole and probation officers and their clients, upping offenders’ likelihood of landing back behind bars. On a more hopeful note, ...

In Pennsylvania, more than half of incarcerated people are jailed due to probation violations. We speak with formerly incarcerated activist LaTonya Myers, who says probation and parole, rather than ...

Vincent Schiraldi is former commissioner of the New York City Departments of Probation and Correction and the author of “Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom.” ...

Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. During the November election, voters across the country approved a slew of initiatives to ...