Interstate Supervision of Parole and Probation

Abstract

The paper examines operations under the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers, which enables a state to supervise other states' parolees and probationers who wish to serve their parole or probation within its territory because they have family and employment there. Administrative practices have been worked out so effectively that the system operates almost as a matter of routine. The highly successful annual meetings of Compact Administrators have resolved most of the major problems as they have arisen, including such matters as frequency of progress reports, degree of adherence to job or residence requirements demanded, methods used to appre hend violators, and procedure for handling men who have moved from one state to another without going through Com pact channels. Some problems still face the states under the Compact, including questions of procedure posed by recent Supreme Court decisions, such as Hyser v. Reed, but, on the whole, the Compact has had tremendous success.