News and Announcements

Probation Commissioner Edward J. Dolan is honored with MOVA Access to Justice Award at Statehouse ceremony

The award is presented by the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA)

The Obamas were featured in an exhibit in honor of Black History Month

A group of South Boston District Court Probation Officers will go out in the community and hand out socks and other cold weather gear to homeless men and women.

Crispin Birnbaum, Massachusetts Probation Service (MPS) General Counsel, was recently honored as one of the state’s “2017 Top Women in Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. A ceremony in November was held at the Marriott Copley Hotel in Boston.

Massachusetts Probation Service (MPS) employees across the Commonwealth are making sure that struggling families and individuals are being remembered during the holidays.

Probation Officers in Boston, Brockton, Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester are teaming up with local police on Halloween night to make unannounced visits to sex offenders as part of the Probation-established “Operation Lights Out” initiative