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This a good article and well worth the read for those of you dealing with sex offender probation. as written from the view of a CT PD-----
http://tinyurl.com/5ykz4h
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http://tinyurl.com/5ykz4h
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Just imagine a situation where you are powerless and your best option is to wholeheartedly follow your PO who in a lot of circumstance is trying to make you fail. Your best option is to not argue with them. Do everything you are supposed to before you have to be told to do it. Let your PO focus on the bad apples. Get treatment done as fast as possible. Get a job, and stay out of trouble. Never do anything you are afraid would cause you to fail a poly.
Probation and parole can be completely unfair and unreasonable, but in situations where you are powerless you have no other option.
I agree 100%. I learned a long time ago in prison that those who learn to "play the game" have the easiest time. I imagine that the same truism holds for probation.
"Playing the game" does not mean never questioning the PD, but many restrictions are rather silly and unimporant.
Probationers have to learn to choose their battles wisely.
Those that want to see how far they can push the PD or want to test the system by defying all his requirements usually are not successful in the long run. I don't mean to allow the PD to completely eviscerate your civil rights or go to extremes, but the wise imates in prison learn to just play along; it is the same for probationers.
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