It's different for adults than juveniles. Adults- well I don't know if this is always the case but at least in some cases, an adult who gets a sentence can go before a parole board and might be granted a release conditional on being on parole and having to do whatever PO says.
In juvie cases, in this state, if a kid does not complete his requirements while incarcerated (anger management treatment, as one example) and has maxed out the most time they can keep him incarcerated, they have to release him but will make these a condition of his parole. So, he'd have to finish the anger management treatment or whatever in order to prevent re-incarceration.
difficult child was sentenced to 15 to 24 mos, and has completed his required treatment and earned his way thru all the steps at 18 mos incarcerated. Therefore, while he's still required to be on parole, no further treatment like that can be ordered as a condition of being released. The PO can order followup treatment, and that's appropriate. But PO is trying to order an entirely new anger management treatment and make GH placement a condition- I think they've already figured out they can't do that because difficult child completed what he needed to without maxing out his sentence.
It's not a dumb question at all- I looked it up prior to pushing things to this point in order to make sure they couldn't keep difficult child incarcerated. Now supposedly, difficult child could choose to do the full 24 mos and not have to be on parole at all but that's a bit questionable- it says that in Department of Juvenile Justice regs but the judge who committed him to Department of Juvenile Justice said he was to be on parole supervision after release so I'm not fighting that. Since difficult child completed all requirements to be released from incarceration, it would be double jeopardy for a judge to sentence him to another disciplinary program for the same crime.
