Introduction It is a fact beyond doubt that humans cannot live without communicating with one another. It is noted that communication takes place everywhere, and it takes many forms. It is one of the factors that maintain the social fabric in the society. According to Mohan & McGrecore (45), communication can be conceptualised as a two way process, an interaction between two parties. It involves sending of the message by the communicator, and reception of the same by the recipient. The sender of the message uses codes such as words and gestures to pass it (Mohan & McGrecore 78). The coded messages pass through a channel or a media, such as the radio, television or a printed media such as a letter or a newspaper. The coded message can also be passed across directly, for example in a conversation taking place on a face to face basis. When the recipient gets the message from the channel or the media that has been used to send it, it is up to them to decode. They decode by making sense of the codes used by the communicator, or in other words interpreting the codes. An important thing to note here is that the sender and the recipient must be sharing the meaning of the symbols used in communicating; otherwise the meaning of the message will be lost on the recipient (Grellier 45). When the recipient gets the message, it is up to them to create meaning of the symbols used in coding it, symbols such as words and gestures. In the whole process of communication, from the coding of the message to the decoding by the recipient, several principles are at play. These are what Mohan & McGrecore (98) refers to as principles of communication in their book by the same title. These principles include the interaction between the sender of the message and the recipient, the topic or content of the message, the channel used to send the message, factors that may affect the communication, such as environmental factors, among others. This paper is going to look at the principles of communication that were learned in class within the context of a criminal justice system in the country. The researcher is going to investigate an organisation within the criminal justice system and look at the principles of communication within the context of this organisation. The organisation selected for this assignment is the probation department. The researcher will first give a descriptive narrative of the organisation, including the role in plays within the criminal justice system and within the society at large. The principles of communication that are used in this organisation will then be analysed. The strengths and weaknesses of this organisation as far as the principles of communication are concerned will be provided, and recommendation riding on this will then be provided. The Probation Department: An Organisation within the Criminal Justice System A Descriptive Narrative According to the European Organisation for Probation (herein referred to as EOP), probation is one of the major organisations or departments in a country’s criminal justice system (6). The probation office plays a vital role in this system by supervising and guiding offenders who have been released from the country’s prison system, or who are yet to be sentenced by the courts. There is a synergy bet