Court, Probation, and Recovery

You are on probation, on parole, in a drug court, or waiting on a case, and you are trying to stay stopped. Supervision adds appointments, fees, tests, and rules at the point in recovery when you have the least room for any of them.

This book explains how supervision works: what your officer can and cannot require, what a court has to do before it jails somebody who could not pay, what you are entitled to at a revocation hearing, and what your treatment program may tell your officer. Every chapter says who decides and who to call.

It also explains why your own lawyer needs the worst fact first, and how to keep the folder of records that a judge will ask to see.

This book is general information for adults. It is not legal advice and it is not advice about your case.