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E: Community Supervision

3: Few probation and parole officers are based in the neighborhood where the majority of their clients lives.

In this chapter:

  • Overview
  • Research Highlights:
  • Recommendations:

    • Caseloads for probation and parole officers are rarely allocated based on geography. Analysis of high-risk probation caseloads in neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York, found that 218 high-risk probationers in a single police precinct were spread across 43 probation officers, even though the average caseload for probation officers was 76 probationers, and three officers could have covered all 218 cases. [1]   Many parole administrators have called for a "reinventing" of parole that may include the development of a community-centered approach to supervision. [2]  

    1. Eric Cadora, "Criminal Justice and Health and Human Services: An Exploration of Overlapping Needs, Resources, and Interests in Brooklyn Neighborhoods" (paper presented at the Urban Institute's From Prisons to Home conference, Washington, DC, January 30-31, 2002).

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