'Love for humanity': low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers

'Love for humanity': low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers

Yahoo - World·2025-01-22 15:01

Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for Japan's army of volunteer probation officers.

The 83-year-old, who jokes she is a "punk" as she puffs on a cigarette, devoted decades to supervising and helping rehabilitate convicted criminals on parole.

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