If a person has ever walked into a courtroom and witnessed a defendant being sentenced# by a Judge, he or she would probably hear; “Your plea of guilty or Nolo Contendere# is accepted and I hereby sentence you to 10 years at hard labor, that sentence is suspended and you will be placed on 5 years probation with the office of Probation and Parole. ... at the office of probation and parole. ... What is probation and how was it started? ...
Unfortunately, Louisiana did not have a John Augustus to pave the way for probation. In fact probation was not recognized as a treatment for offenders in this
state until 1914#. ... When an offender was placed on probation there was not a provision stating that there was an officer to supervise him/her, until 1942#, when the Legislature passed an act providing supervision for offenders given the opportunity of probation. ... Supreme Court decisions, have affected probation in one way or another.
system, for example: in-house incarceration, IMPACT Program#, are a couple but probation happens to be the most used of all courts. Probation is a branch out of
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the Department of Corrections which is part of the executive branch of the state government. Which unfortunately has been a debate for a quarter of a century, some people claim that probation should be part of the executive branch while others claim that it should be part of judicial branch of government. ... In the county plan or in Louisiana we refer to our counties as parishes, the state writes the basic probation law that they want the counties to follow, and
then each county within the boundaries of the law, appoints staff and administrators in it’s own department. In Louisiana, the probation organization consists of a headquarters in Baton Rouge and 20 district offices located throughout the state.
As you can see on the organizational chart for Louisiana’s Division of Probation and Parole provided, there is one director, four regional directors, and 21 District Administrators. ... ” In probation it doesn’t work that way. ... Once an individual meets those qualifications he/she will enter at entry level known as Probation and Parole Officer 1, then they will be able to work their way up to officer 2 and so on. With each promotion comes more cases to monitor, and the benefits of being an officer at entry level is a salary of $23, 292 per year, 25 year retirement at any age, health and hospitalization plan, and promotion after one year to Probation and Parole Officer 2
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with a salary of $25,938#.
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