Far too frequently, persons, agencies, organizations, or even entire fields of expertise which could take influential action towards betterment, are either out of range of hearing the alarm bells ringing, or, the alarm bells may be sensed, but people wanting to take influential action on behalf of someone on probation are rendered powerless to do so, because...
The corrupted power structure of the probation system trumps effective advocacy of medical, mental health, child development, employment, and economic specialists and systems which otherwise could be poised to play a more supportive role, given sufficient probation reform.
As things currently stand, all of these support factors could improve outcomes,
yet are shackled from effectiveness.
Worse, a person on probation often has nobody to turn to.