Office of Defender Services
TRAINING BRANCH
- Revocation of Probation and Supervised Release
written by Frances H. Pratt, Research & Writing Attorney, E.D. VA;
updated by Alison Siegler, Staff Attorney, Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL
(Part I of this outline addresses the issues common to both revocation of probation and revocation of supervised release. Part II focuses on those issues peculiar to probation revocation, and Part III on those issues peculiar to supervised release revocation. The outline includes cases through October, 2006. A 2007 Case Supplement to the outline is available here.)
- Review of Issues and Objections to Supervised Release Conditions
by Christy Unger, Research and Writing Specialist, E.D. PA
- Video: The Fine Print & Not Letting Clients Be Doomed to Sentencing Conditions: Avoiding Courts Imposing Restrictive Conditions During Supervised Release or Probation
by Jennifer Gilg, Research & Writing Specialist, D. NE
- The Fine Print: Strategies for Avoiding Restrictive Conditions of Supervised Release
by Jennifer Gilg, Research & Writing Specialist, D. NE
(This article sets forth the statutory framework governing supervised release, the types of conditions sex offenders typically face, and the arguments you can make to eliminate these conditions and give your clients a fighting chance to succeed after incarceration.)
- Recidivism of Offenders on Federal Community Supervision (December 21, 2012)
Prepared for the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Office of Probation and Pretrial Services, by Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA
(This report analyzes recidivism rates of federal probationers and those on supervised release and identifies several factors that can increase or decrease a person's reisk of committing a new offense or being revoked during their period of supervision.)
- An Overview of the Federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (September 2011)
Office of Probation and Pretrial Services
(describing the Federal Post-Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA), a new risk assessment tool that probation officers use in determining a defendant's level of post-conviction supervision, as well as the services they will receive)
- The Supervision of Federal Offenders
Monograph 109, Office of Probation and Pretrial Services (December 2010)
(setting national policy for the supervision of federal offenders)
- Defender Letter to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure Regarding Proposed Amendments to Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 5, 12.3, 21 and 32.1 (January 9, 2009)
(commenting on a proposed amendment to Rule 32.1(a)(6), which addresses release or detention decisions pending further proceedings concerning revocation or modification of probation or supervised release)