Greater Manchester Probation Trust

Probation staff work in prisons in Greater Manchester. In partnership with prison staff,  their work  includes interviewing newly arrived prisoners, helping provide a welfare service,  maintaining links with home and families, and reporting on suitability for parole and eventual release.

When prisoners are released from custody, they are supervised by a probation officer for a specific time after their release - which, in the case of a life licence, may be indefinitely.