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Probation and parole officers supervise offenders placed on probation (people who fulfill the terms of court-ordered sentences) and parolees (people who are released from prison to fulfill parole-board-ordered sentences).In some states, the job of parole and probation officer is combined. Parole has been abolished in the federal corrections system.
