Parole, a suburb of Annapolis, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.

[2] It has several major roads intersect at the western edge of the state capital, Annapolis, and it contains the Annapolis Mall, a number of other large shopping centers, and the Anne Arundel Medical Center.

The neighborhood was named because it was a parole camp, where Union and Confederate prisoners of war were brought for mutual exchange and eventual return to their respective homes.

U.S. Route 50 is a six-to-eight-lane expressway that runs through the community, leading west to Washington, D.C., and east to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Maryland's Eastern Shore.

The highway intersects Interstate 97, which leads north to Baltimore, along the northern edge of the CDP.

[8][9] Anne Arundel County Public Schools has its headquarters in Parole.