The phrase "a probation facility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a place where individuals on probation are monitored or receive support.
Example: "After his sentencing, he was required to attend a probation facility for rehabilitation and counseling."
Alternatives: "probation center" or "probation office".
Maurice also faced seemingly insurmountable odds, dropping out of high school at 16-years-old and ending up in a juvenile probation facility.
There was a fashion, for a time, of turning juvenile probation facilities into boot camps dispensing military-style discipline — despite state laws that meticulously lay out the goal of the juvenile justice system as rehabilitation, not punishment.
The writer is a professor at Southwestern Law School specializing in juvenile justice... To the editor: It wasn't too long ago that probation facilities were bulging at the seams.
Those incidents also led the Delaware Department of Correction to cancel visitation and restrict movement in all of its prison facilities, with the exception of work release and probation facilities.
Over the summer, Ms. Lohan served less than two weeks of a 90-day jail sentence and spent 22 days in a rehabilitation facility after missing a probation hearing in May stemming from her 2007 arrests on charges of drunken driving and drug possession.
'No facilities' for Pistorius in prison Jump to media player A probation officer has told the sentencing hearing in the Oscar Pistorius case that there are not appropriate facilities in jail for the athlete.
After five arrests and a probation violation, Richard was taken away from his gang a year ago and sent to a residential treatment facility called the Edwin Gould Academy.
Mr. Moseley, who is at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, N.Y., said he was working as a teacher's aide for a probation officer, but otherwise "I stay to myself".
A probation officer may have, as well.
But then there's a probation period of 17 months.
