Probation

The Sentencing Project’s Locked Out 2024 report estimates that 1.7% of Missourians over 18 can’t vote because they have felony convictions. That rate is more than double for Black Missourians. Missouri has the 14th-highest disenfranchisement rate in the country.

The Missouri Senate Judiciary Committee is weighing a series of new bills that aim for criminal justice reform. One would increase educational and job…

Clark Porter is a social worker at the Federal Probation Office in St. Louis. Once upon a time, he was a violent felon. But he turned his life around and…

Guards charged with assault for inmate fightTwo guards at the medium security jail in St. Louis City are facing burglary and assault charges for allegedly…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 14, 2012 - A few weeks back, I wrote a column in which I suggested that our newly emergent crime…

Mo. General Assembly sends probation and parole reforms to Gov. NixonThe Missouri General Assembly has sent Gov. Jay Nixon a measure that could reduce the…

One day after Governor Jay Nixon (D) made his State of the State Address, the annual State of the Judiciary Address was delivered to Missouri lawmakers…

A special task force is recommending changes to how Missouri handles people who are on parole or probation.The recommendations presented Wednesday to an…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 28, 2010 - When Clark Porter, a job and family specialist with the U.S. Probation Office, looks…