Community supervision agencies have been increasingly burdened during the past three decades — supervision caseloads have increased significantly, more high-risk offenders have been sentenced to probation or released to parole, and operating budgets have remained stagnant . The natural consequence of increased caseloads comprised of higher-risk offenders combined with insufficient resources is ...

Over the past half-century, US welfare and penal systems have become increasingly fused modes of poverty governance. At center welfare-penal continuum sits probation, a form community supervision that operates as central hub, directing people to both services incarceration. Drawing on interviews with 166 adults probation in Hennepin County, Minnesota, 2019, we argue coercive care is structured ...

Transition from incarceration to the community is a critical time for offenders, especially those with substance abuse problems. Many succumb to temptation to return to drug use and possibly risky needle sharing, and engaging in risky sex activities. This critical time period entails substantial health risks for the offender as well as significant risks to public health. Well-established and co...

We consider an architecture for ultra-dependable operation based on synchronized state machine replica-tion, extended to provide transient recovery and recon-guration in the presence of arbitrary faults. The architecture allows processors suspected of being faulty to be placed on \probation." Processors in this status cannot disrupt other processors, but those that are nonfaulty or recovering f...

Court Support Services Division within the Judicial Branch designed and implemented two pilot probation programs that sought to decrease probation violations and subsequent incarceration. These programs were the Probation Transition Program (PTP) and the Technical Violation Unit (TVU). A final evaluation report of these programs was prepared in January of 2006. The initial report consisted of a...