u/Used_Success6899

Hello probation officers/probationers

I'm currently on a 2 year probation sentence in Wisconsin. My supervision started on February 6th 2026, so I'm about 7 months into my supervision. I have no compliance issues at all so far and my restitution is completely paid off and my supervision fees are paid off until February 2027. I've been through 3 agents so far and I had my first agent for about 4 months and the second agent quit after having my case for a month. I also have stable employment and have been employed since late June.

Despite my perfect compliance and demonstrated fiscal responsibility, my security level is medium. My first agent actually wanted to move me to minimum back in August but I got switched to a new agent and then another new agent and it never happened. While starting supervision I also was in drug/substance abuse rehab voluntarily(not court ordered) then to treatment then to a sober house and then finally to apartment living most recently and all these transitions happened over the course of the last 7 months.

Anyways for the officers/probationers who aren't aware of how early termination works in Wisconsin, the Department of Corrections which manages both probation and parole has sole discretion to grant early termination not even the judge or an attorney can petition the court to initiate the process of early termination.

Luckily my current agent is open to the idea of early termination, but since I'm not on minimum security and I need to be on minimum security for at least 6 months in order to meet DOC guidelines for early termination. It is frustrating because the only reason I've been categorized as medium security has nothing to do with my actual compliance or not paying my fees but me changing my address too frequently has caused their actuarial risk assessment algorithm to classify me as having "housing instability" from my address changing when those addresses were places like rehabs, treatment centers, and sober livings which are places designed for short term stay.

My agent informed me that it has nothing to do with what he thinks its simply an aggregation of all the data on my file and some proprietary actuarial risk assessment algorithm classified me as medium security and also suffering from "housing instability." I'm extremely upset that some black-box algorithm is deciding with zero nuance that the frequency of my addresses changing is cause enough to hold me back from having early termination at the 50% mark.

My agent won't do anything about it and I'm pretty sure contacting a supervisor will also accomplish nothing but piss off my agent and perhaps bring 75% early termination off the table as well.

My respect for probation officers is in the gutter after learning that there's zero room for human discretion and they simply follow their actuarial risk assessment as absolute law.

Is there anything I'm missing? I'm also sure bringing it up again and insisting his actuarial risk assessment score is lacking nuance and isnt taking into account my address changes were necessary (EDIT) would accomplish nothing as well.

Im sober and I have 973 days to go on probation. I haven't found work yet and I'm at a treatment center. I'm hoping my attitude will turn around once im finally employed, but I really would enjoy either going back to methadone (which i could probably get away with with a script) or using something else that i have a history with.

I miss both of them dearly because I'm a drug addict. The other thing I could use never shows up on drug tests but addiction to it will most certainly become visible quite quickly. I'm on sublocade rn and it doesn't feel nearly as good as being on methadone did.

I'm struggling hard rn. Could use some encouragement. I know I fucked up to be on probation but this really is hard for me. I'm still clean as of right now but idk if I can maintain this for 973 more days.

Started at 1,091 days of probation. Its not much but its something!

So far very easy. No drug use nor alcohol use. Its a lot more fun to not be in jail and be sober than to be in jail and be sober anyways.

My dog has cancer and is dying at 14 years old. He's been with me since my childhood. I'm devastated. How to move on?

He was the goodest boy.

I love him with all my heart.