Prison Policy Initiative’s new report, One Size Fits None, studies the standard conditions of probation across all 50 states.

Topics of the study include:

• Financial burdens
• Movement and travel restrictions
• Relationship or “association” restrictions
• Searches
• Other unnecessary and discriminatory rules around conduct

From Prison Policy Initiative:

One Size Fits None:

How ‘standard conditions’ of probation set people up to fail

Courts and probation agencies impose a standard set of rules on everyone under their supervision, before tacking on any extra restrictions. Our national review finds these mandatory rules are often unnecessarily burdensome and incredibly vague, making it all too easy to “fail” at probation and land behind bars.

Read the full study here: One Size Fits None

The Prison Policy Initiative is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization. Visit them at www.prisonpolicy.org.