The members of Pennsylvania Governor-elect Tom Wolf’s transition team were appointed this week with one of them being juvenile probation officer Stephanie Bellini Serapiglia who was selected to join his task force on corrections. Serapiglia has worked with at-risk youth …
Maria Esparza, a probation officer in Oxnard, California was honored last week at a ceremony for pulling an 18-month-old baby from a truck that was on fire. The truck exploded and was subsequently engulfed in flames just moments after Esparza …
Retired chief US probation officer Anthony C. Harvilla of Tresckow, Pennsylvania was presented with a citation by US District Court Judge Yvette Kane in recognition of his contributions to the Middle District of Pennsylvania’s offender re-entry program. Harvilla, who retired …
This past Halloween, the Los Angeles County Probation department carried out a special operation to ensure that the children in the area remained safe during the festivities and, in the process, they arrested several people as they carried out checks …
Probation officers in Beaver County, Pennsylvania are now permitted to carry a firearm during work hours thanks to a policy change implemented by county officials. Judge John D. McBride, President of Beaver County, recently signed an official order that reverses …
Tiffany Wernette has been a probation officer in Coconino County, Arizona for the past three years. She has been commended by her superiors a number of times during those three years and recently Wernette received the Scotia Knouff Line Officer …
Parole officers in Brooklyn, New York will soon be stationed in a new office that opens in January of 2015 and which will have roughly 300 to 400 parolees visiting the office on a daily basis. The news is great …
A jury in Easton, Pennsylvania has convicted a man of stalking his probation officer, which could send him to prison for the better part of the next fifteen years. The jury in Northampton County handed down a guilty verdict to …
Over the past several months, more and more parole officers have been resorting to new ways of dealing with parolees and probationers. Many in the corrections industry are looking to establish and maintain a safer community both inside the prison …