Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A. Corrections § 5404. Probation and parole officers

A. Arrest violators of probation or supervised release for sex offenders and parole violators and return parole violators upon request of the commissioner;

B. Arrest and return to a correctional facility persons released from the correctional facility under section 3035 or transferred from the facility under section 3036-A;

C. If the officer has probable cause to believe that a person under the supervision of the department has violated a condition of that person's probation, supervised release for sex offenders or parole, the officer may arrest that person; and

D. Arrest and return to a correctional or detention facility persons who have escaped from the official custody of the department. For the purposes of this paragraph, “official custody” has the same meaning as set out in Title 17-A, section 755, subsection 3;

A. Supervise the probation, supervised release for sex offenders or parole of each person placed under the officer's supervision to ensure that departmental resources are directed to the management of persons with a high risk of reoffending;

B. Supervise persons released from a correctional facility under section 3035 and supervise persons transferred to supervised community confinement under section 3036-A if the commissioner directs;

C. Keep informed of the conduct and condition of each person placed under the officer's supervision and use suitable methods to encourage the person to improve that person's conduct and condition; and

D. Deleted. Laws 1989, c. 127, § 14.

E. Supervise the transition from institutional confinement for persons residing in a prerelease center if the commissioner directs;