Pretrial and probation professionals share many principles and goals, but the two systems have key differences. Probation is imposed after people are convicted. Pretrial is the period when people are presumed innocent and have the right to physical liberty. That means the conditions and restrictions placed on people before trial are limited.
We’ll discuss the differences between pretrial and probation and the similarities—and how you can incorporate this knowledge into your work.
This topic is immensely important in this work right now. Too many of our pretrial services agencies have naturally adopted probation-like supervision strategies in the pretrial phase—people who are presumed INNOCENT! Please keep this message going.