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National judges panel issues guidelines for individualizing juvenile cases and creating behavior-based incentives to shorten time on probation

By JJIE Staff | August 18, 2021

Following its July 2017 resolution urging a shift in how juvenile probationers are supervised, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges recently issued its blueprint for how judges and probation officers help make that happen.

Nonprofits push parole reform and housing for parolees

By Anna Deen | July 16, 2021

Since being released from New York City’s Rikers Island jail — where he’d been sentenced to four months for not being where his parole officer expected him to be on a certain day and time — Dakem Roberts has been living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. 

It was his latest incarceration since, in the late 1970s, when he was 16, he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He’d been arrested for his involvement in a robbery whose victim died the next day of heart failure, he said.  

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A Message to Probation Officers: Don’t Expect Youth to Show Up If You Don’t

By Miracle Te'o | August 3, 2020

One of my favorite memes says, “Accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behaviors harm others.” Probation officers (POs) and youth share the responsibility for their own actions, as well as the actions of one another. Accountability isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible. With POs modeling what it looks like to be accountable, it will set the example for youth to follow. Below I’ve narrowed it it down to three simple, but significant steps:
Show up
I had both a negative and positive experience with probation officers. The distinction between these two experiences was that my first PO only showed up for work, while my second PO (PO Choi) showed up to work and showed up for me.

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Collaborating With Juvenile Probation Officers Will Further Advance Reforms

By Johanna Lacoe and Leah Sakala | April 13, 2020

Almost all youth who interact with the juvenile justice system have contact with juvenile probation staff.

Law Enforcement, Child Development People Must Communicate for Reform

By Kathleen Van Antwerp | July 29, 2019

"10-4," which means, "message received, affirmative," is an example of a coded language that may be familiar to civilians not trained as a law enforcement officer.

Juvenile Probation Officers Should Not Be Fixers, But Levers to Resources for Youth

By Stephen Bishop | February 20, 2019

Like most, when I became a juvenile probation officer I entered the field envisioning myself as a counselor or a mentor. But my day-to-day duties were centered around surveillance, compliance monitoring and paperwork, and the composition of my caseload further complicated matters.

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