...Julie Rud Julie Rud is the community corrections field services area director for Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Only five states have more people on probation than Minnesota, yet Hennepin County is a leader in reforms to supervision, including eliminating fees and cutting the use of drug testing...

... and academic attention because of its particular cruelty, almost twice as many people—3.7 million, or one in every sixty-nine U.S. adults—are under community supervision. Probation and parole are commonly understood as “alternatives to incarceration” or “lenient sentences,” but people on supervision must...

...Brian Lovins The criminal justice system is enthralled with drug testing. It is a billion dollar industry fueled by drug courts, swift certain, and fair strategies, and the idea that probation is a privilege. It has become so pervasive that even people without an identified drug problem are often...

... reserved. 2024 Missing the Mark: Drug Testing on Community Supervision The articles you are about to read represent fresh thinking and honest re ection on a common practice: drug testing in probation and parole. Drug testing on community supervision might seem justi ed, narrow, or trivial. Our hope...

...Randall McNeil My name is Randall McNeil. I currently work as a Policy Analyst at Arnold Ventures, and I was formerly incarcerated. Released in August 2022 under DC’s IRAA reform after spending 24 years and 4 months in prison, I expected support from my probation officer upon my return to society...

...Michelle S. Phelps Observers of the criminal legal system in the U.S. have increasingly looked beyond prisons to map the expansion and consequences of mass supervision, or the role of probation and parole in people’s lived experiences of correctional control. In this commentary, I reflect...

...LaTonya Myers An edited and condensed version of remarks delivered by LaTonya Myers as a panelist at the “Drug Testing and Community Supervision: Interrogating Policy, Practice, and Purpose” convening in Columbus, Ohio, in November 2023. Myers discusses her experiences—mostly negative—of probation...

...Fiona Doherty Probation systems rely on urine screens to sort people for punishment. Probationers who test “clean” show that they are worthy of remaining in the community, while those who test “dirty” make themselves vulnerable to incarceration. This article draws comparisons between the testing...

... of a vaccine condition on federal supervision suggests the need for a more robust discussion to be had about the responsible use of probation and supervision conditions. While we regularly incarcerate individuals for technical violations of discretionary conditions, we have scant empirical evidence about...

... are directed to use all suitable methods . . . to aid a probationer or person under supervised release . . . and to bring about improvements in his conduct and condition. 26 National policy identi es U.S. Probation of cers as the primary change agents for those under supervision, with the goal of guiding...

... and repayment among persons sentenced to probation and transferred to a specialized collections unit. Results from statistical analyses using bivariate tests and logistic regression indicated a salience of individual-level and institutional-level factors as correlates with the likelihood of full debt repayment...

... consequences to system and supervisee alike. © 2022 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2022 community corrections community supervision probation pretrial monetary sanctions fines fees state funding budget Exploring How Fines and Fees Finance Community Supervision I...

... sanctions, their correctional goals, and the effects of monetary sanctions on individuals paying them. For fees, Texas relies on them for partial support of their probation departments’ operations. In this study, we focus on two probation jurisdictions in Texas to explore officers’ attitudes and beliefs...

... racial disparities prison jail parole probation Crime Bill Research Illustrates Role of New Council on Criminal Justice as Center of Gravity for the Field Our nation s criminal justice system is not producing enough safety or justice. Although crime and incarceration rates have dropped from...