CONFINED AND COSTLY: How Supervision Violations Are Filling Prisons and Burdening Budgets
Thanks to Member Joseph for bringing this to our attention.
Probation and parole are designed to lower prison populations and help people succeed in the community. New data show they are having the opposite effect. Until now, national data regarding the impact of probation violations on prison populations have been unavailable, resulting in a lopsided focus on parole. The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center recently engaged corrections and community supervision leaders in 50 states to develop the first complete picture of how probation and parole violations make up states’ prison populations. The analysis revealed a startling reality.
45% of state prison admissions nationwide are due to violations of probation or parole for new offenses or technical violations
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Technical Violations in FLORI-DUH….occur mainly when a Registrant has the ‘666’ ANKLE BRACELET ATTACHED TO THEIR APPENDAGE….this is where the Probation ‘Officer’ always wins…they can say anything at anytime; violate you..lock you up as the Clock is ticking..and, if you have the CHA-CHING (which most Registrants DO NOT HAVE), you will need to hire an attorney ASAP who will have to file a notice with ‘Tracking/Monitoring Company (Used to be owned by the 3M Corporation, but was sold off to a hedge fund controlled by one of the former Board members of 3M-go figure!) to get the data track of the ‘666’ device-which normally takes weeks and by then the judge has already sentenced you and you are FCKED!-the only positive is that you will be sitting in County Jail up to 364 days-NOT back to STATE Prison as the ‘law’ was modified
ASK Mr. Joseph Pratt about this one.,.he and many others fell into this abyss and got royally screwed!-like me as well!…once again, there is no Due Process!
Clarify – you are talking about PROBATION VIOLATIONS, not REGISTRATION VIOLATIONS.
Thank you for that clarification. I don’t live in Florida, and my jaw was (metaphorically) on the table at the thought of ankle monitors for registrants. You guys at FAC are good about separating the legal concepts. I feel much better now.
ED C
In the words of the great Elmer Fudd
“Be berry berry quiet”, don’t give the law makers any ideas
Yes, Probation Violations….
Once the ‘666’ bracelet is strapped on to you, ‘they’ can Technically Violate you for anything..Imagine going out to dinner with Clients not realizing that you are a block away from an all-girls school, and all of a sudden your dining table is surrounded by corrupt LEOs and your Probation Officer….well, for some, that was the reality..I was not taken into custody then, but later was taken in to custody when making my monthly visit to the Probation Office which resulted in 26 months in State Prison…yes…My attorney (costing me another $12K) was able to obtain the ‘tracking info’ from the tracking company but the Judge refused to analyze the information and relied on the Lies of my Probation Officer to sentence me, knowing full-well that his presence was a ‘conflict of interest’ as I went to boarding school with the Judge’s son and still refused to allow for this conflict of interest…You, all must realize that the SYSTEM is entirely corrupt..I spent over $136K during my defenses, and it got me NOTHING!
Glad ( not for you ) that I am not the only one who had to sell 3 kidneys to pay for my defense only to get the same outcome I could have gotten myself.
Am I blaming the lawyer? Yes. He should have stepped aside when I was out of money and told the judge to offer me a public defender. Instead he said “Just plead guilty to all the charges and we can barter for some to be thrown out” Well guess the Hell what. I was sentenced for ALL of the charges with NOTHING in return. I spent all of my $60,000 and that is like a million for a 20 something year old kid ( ME ) at the time. I had been saving since I was 12 years old and worked since I was 13.
YES I did get myself into the situation but pisses me off the prosecution adds on tons of false charges for trial to bargain with but if you do not go to trial, you get charged with everything they faked on your charges.
The attorney did redeem himself years later getting my sentence quashed but that was also not free but he gave me a heck of a deal and promised a 70% chance of getting it dropped before the new judge who he was a close personal friend of. (Touche’ prosecution, we can play dirty pool as well)
I also got a freebee a few years back when the FDLE had 15 charges listed on my offender page when it should have been one but we settled with them for three. I had a single incident which they made to look like 15 different victims. Lawyer did not charge me at all for that one as we did not have to go to court and he directly contacted FDLE. Won’t do that again though as right after that they changed me from 2 times a year reg to 4 times a year.
I could see a violation for a new REAL crime. Say you were a drug dealer and released on probation and got caught again selling drugs. That is a no brainer ( for any crime ) that you commit again and not learn your lesson.
Having said that, when I was on probation I barely left the house out of fear of making a mistake. One time my probation officer was at my house ( 4 cops were hiding on the side of my house ) and she asked where I had been. I said at work and she said she wanted to come in side to look around . When I turned to open the door with my key, the four cops slammed me to the ground, handcuffed me and sat me in a chair while they scanned my computer for child porn ( not even what I was arrested for ).
After 30 minutes of running the program and “Trashing” the Hell out my house looking for anything that could violate me, they left and did not even talk to me as they left.
As soon as I was off probation I moved to another county.
My point is, you stay clean and do your time and the Gestapo does everything they can to send you back. Meanwhile there are numerous murderers and others walking the streets with Warrants that are sometimes decades old.
Wasn’t there a article a short time ago where someone said their P.O. threatened to notify all of that registrants customers and a judge said probation wasn’t allowed to do that ?
Yeah man I’ll t was when probation makes up their own rules. The DOC video they show in the probation office says if you own your own business they need your business license and tax returns somehow pO wants way more that that and have no problem taking your rights from you If you let them you gotta pay more money go back to court to have a judge make them follow their job and law.
It’s nothing more than any other money making scheme revolving around the judicial system. The whole system is designed for profit! I mean why else are lawyer’s paid so well for?
However if you Compare other Developed/Western Democracies. E.G./I.E. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe to the United States. If you are facing a Parole Violation only in Australia, New Zealand, Canada or Europe their Parole Boards/Parole Commissions will send you a letter in writing to show up to the next Parole Board/Parole Commission meeting. If you fail to appear then they re-arrest you and if you caught a new charge on Parole then your Parole is Revoked and you are re-incarcerated. If you are facing a Probation Violation only in Australia, New Zealand, Canada or Europe their Criminal Courts will send you a summons/notice to appear to show up in Court. If you fail to appear then they re-arrest you and if you caught a new charge on Probation then your Probation is Revoked and you are re-incarcerated. Remember that in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe you can still vote from prison so therefore convicted felons in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe are true constituents and they have a voice.
I’m curious to know how much of that 45% are registrants. Special conditions for them are so overlapping and borderline impossible to comply with that violation is almost inevitable. Even the technical violations that for any other probationer are swept away often result in max revocation and conversion to special conditions for registrants. Factor in the seemingly unspoken rule that no court ever rules against its probation officers and the appellate courts rare review of revocation and I’d bet that registrants account for the overwhelming majority of the 45% population in this study.
When I registered last time, a guy said he was there to tell them he was going into the hospital. He asked if it was less than 3 days does he have to register it.
The officer stated ( Where all of us could hear it ) that once he was in an assigned room, he needed to call them and give them the room number and they will call the hospital and inform them a sexual offender would be staying in the hospital regardless of how long you are staying.
No wonder every time I am in the hospital I get treated like crap. Last time they didn’t bring me food for 28 hours and took the phone out of my room so I could not call for help. Little did they know I had my cell phone and my parents called an attorney who in turn called the CEO of Florida Hospital. Within an hour of that call I had a new nurse, food and all the desserts I could eat.
Another thing that was interesting. A guy lives in a commune of about 20 offenders and EACH one of them when they come in to register are required to give the license plate , make and model of all 20 cars in the compound. That one blew my mind. If you do not have access to a certain car, you shouldn’t have to register it. I gave that guy the contact info for F.A.C. He said he would pass that on to his lawyer since he is not allowed to use a computer for ANY reason. I told him I also thought that was ruled illegal as well but was not sure.
@cherokee
Anyone living under the same roof at the same address that has a vehicle is required to register all other vehicles at that address.
Anyone living under the same roof but having a different address are NOT required to do so.
I do not know if it is one house but one guy owns the entire compound and only rents to offenders. Many times when I register there is a van that drives them all over to register at once if there are enough who register in the same month
Back when I still had some money, I thought of buying up my old neighborhood and doing the same thing. I spoke with my insurance agent and she said “Good luck getting insurance for those homes”.
Hoping my parents do not get dropped now since I have to live with them since I no longer work. Most of the neighbors have known me since I was a kid, just the newbies who have moved onto the street I have to worry about.