Can Your Probation Officer Require You to Move Into a Half-Way House

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Wisconsin

Can a probation officer deny you a place to live and place you on the streets to stay in a shelter?

Your place of residence is often subject to approval by your PO by the conditions of your probation. I'm sure if you put your heads together, the two of you can come up with some place for you to hang your hat.

The PO is not placing you into the street. He is forbidding you to live at a location.

There is a place for this person to go that is completely ligit. But the PO refuses to approve it due to the person refusing to sign papers to go to a halfway house or TLP.

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Quoting Bree11

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There is a place for this person to go that is completely ligit. But the PO refuses to approve it due to the person refusing to sign papers to go to a halfway house or TLP.

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I don't understand what you mean?

The PO wants the person to stay in a halfway house or TLP. But this person refused to sign to go there because they have a house they could live in that is owned by a family member. No one else lives there.

As said before, the PO has the authority to reject the person's choice of home.

so ur telling me they can just put a prolee on the streets to with no where to go even in the winter? Nd yet they say the homeless isn't the city's problem. When it is an atority figure who is making this person homeless.

They've given you a reason the home you chose is not acceptable. What was the reason they gave?

The PO is not putting the probationer on the streets (you used parolee here and they have parole officers, so which is the person in question?) The probationer is choosing to be homeless by not staying where the PO says they can.

If the person in question is a parolee and recently released/due to be released, it is normal for them to be required to spend some time in a halfway house or transitional living facility in order to make a smoother transition back to life on the outside. It also allows them to be monitored more closely to ensure they will be successful on the outside.