Your guide in difficult times.

Professional Probation & Parole Consulting, Inc. provides experienced, professional assistance for clients and their attorneys with a wide variety of challenges including:

Pre-sentence Interview

Preparing for Pre-Sentence Interviews

Rehabilitation Reports

Assistance in Composing and Submitting Rehabilitation Reports

Parole Board Interview

Attending Interviews as Lay Representative

Record Expungement

Assistance in the Preparation of Court Documentation

Public Hearing

Preparation of Client for a Public Hearing

Mitigation Reports

Independent Sentencing Mitigation Reports

Commutation and Pardon Applications

Assistance in Preparing Commutation and Pardon Applications Applications

Request for ReHearing

Assistance in the Preparation of a Request for a ReHearing

Re-Entry Plan

Home Placement, Employment Opportunities, and Substance Abuse Treatment

Articles & News

  • Free Thinker

    Consultant Kathleen M. Schaefer tells why some juvenile offenders are good candidates for early release (reproduced from Hour Detroit magazine, March 2010)

  • The Cost of Paying a Debt to Society

    The high cost of housing inmates has long been a drain on the economy. This does not include the social costs of sending a criminal to prison and just expecting them to be “reformed” without the benefit of therapeutic or educational assistance. It costs more each year to keep one individual in prison than one full year of tuition, room and board in any of our state’s 4-year public universities.

  • House Judiciary Committee, April 18, 2007

    “Allow me to provide information to the Committee regarding my background. I have worked in the Michigan Corrections field since 1976 where I began my career as a Prison Counselor. In my capacity as a prison counselor, I attended numerous parole board hearings with prisoners that were assigned to me.” -Testimony of Kathleen M. Schaefer, M.A., Parole, Sentencing and Commutation Consultant.