Mar 3rd, 2012 Dallas TX – Police are pushing for a second charge against Deion Sanders for a domestic dispute that occurred between himself and his estranged wife last month. Police officials along with the Collin County District Attorney’s office are pushing for misdemeanor criminal mischief against the 44-year-old ex-football star. Sanders told the police [...]
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March 23, 2012 – John J. O’brien former probation commissioner along with two of his former top assistants have been indicted. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said: “This is a very serious matter,” “We’ve just indicted three former state public officials who were supposed to be working on behalf of this Commonwealth and who were engaged [...]
March 3, 2012 – The state of Florida is trying to reel in expenses pertaining to their prison system to the tune of $79 million for this last quarter of their fiscal year. The need to cut budgets means that some offenders will be receiving less probation officer visits through June of this year. Only [...]
February 14, 2012 Pennsylvania, PA – There was an article posted today in the The Times Leader where a county in Pennsylvania was found to have some of the lowest caseloads yet some of the highest paid probation officers in the entire state. This fact in itself made for an very interesting article; for the [...]
January 1, 2012 Frankfort, KY – Recently roughly 1,000 convicts in Kentucky were able to leave prison early due to a change in the state law. The Department of Corrections reported the cost to house a prisoner was roughly around $21k per year in the state of Kentucky. However, the cost to have a parole [...]
January 1, 2012 – A park ranger was fatally shot at Mount Rainier National Park in the state of Washington following a traffic stop on New Year’s day. The national park was shutdown as dozens of authorities entered the park to search for the gunman over the rugged and snowy park terrain. Ed Troyer who [...]
December 31, 2011 – In more and more counties across the United States probation officers are being asked to setup shop in local schools to help ensure those students on probation stay in school, and abide by the rules. One of the newer counties in the Unites States to employ this model is that of [...]
