Having a job is critical to having independence, dignity and making a positive impact on a community. A job is security, an identity and for many, a passion. Earning a living is paramount to creating ...

One interim probation officer will lose his job after failing a June exam required by a 2011 law, while the other roughly 200 interim hires passed the exam and will remain on the job, and 1,100 ...

Probation officers play an essential role in our society. They oversee and support law offenders as they reenter society. They also protect the safety of their community by ensuring their probationers ...

A federal jury started deliberations Wednesday in the trial of former state probation commissioner John O'Brien and two deputies, a case that has focused attention on the patronage culture in state ...

BOSTON — A probation official testified Monday that he begged out of the hiring process at the department to focus on a Web project after he began to notice that individuals whose names were passed on ...

LANCASTER - Office work can sometimes be mundane. That is not the case with the Fairfield County Adult Community Control Office, however. I spent Thursday morning in the office for the latest "Jeff'll ...

The convictions of former state probation commissioner John O'Brien and two former deputies were overturned Monday by an appeals court, which said prosecutors failed to prove a scheme to favor ...

When Mary joined the probation service in 2018, she believed she had found a job for life in helping offenders to rehabilitate back into society and protecting the public. But just five years later, ...

PATERSON — Steven Jefferson said he has struck out on 17 job applications during the past few months. Several times, Jefferson said, he was called in for interviews, but within a few days was told he ...

The Bexar County adult probation chief, Jarvis Anderson, still has his job, at least for now. But if the last few weeks are any indication, 2017 is going to be rough for him. A contingent of employees ...

NEWARK – Their leader calls them the “Secret Service” of the Licking County Courthouse. But these 13 men and women are not the Secret Service. They’re the probation officers working in the Adult Court ...