What is a parole officier?
A parole officer is an officer of the court who meets with people after they get out of prison or jail. Parole is a supervised monitoring of individuals after they leave prison, including making sure people have a job, stay off of drugs and alcohol, and keep a curfew set by the court. The parole officer monitors and checks a person, sometimes just by meetings in their office, but sometimes by checking a person in their home. A parole officer has authority to arrest a person and put them back in jail if they break the rules of parole, which are the conditions for staying out of jail.
