Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marcella Soto had four children by the time she was 22 and was on and off welfare during the years they were growing up. By 2018, ...

According to Pew Trust, across the United States, there are nearly five million people on either parole or probation. That’s close to one out of every fifty adults! Not only are those people part of ...

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 ...

No taxation without representation” wasn’t just a catch phrase for the Founding Fathers. It was the idea that a government wasn’t legitimate if it ...

A bill with bipartisan support to restore voting rights to people on probation and parole passes in the Missouri House.

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 ...

Rep. Melanie Stinnett, a Springfield Republican, sponsored the bipartisan bill that could give voting rights back to more ...

With critical election races happening for Democrats, the White House is trying to get across the message that defunding the police is not a Democratic stance, and also that probation and parole ...

In cities and towns across Tennessee, nearly 1,000 Department of Correction probation/parole officers work each day to keep our communities safe. These PPOs are responsible for helping more than ...

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 ...

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