Sentence examples for number of probation from inspiring English sources

Now the government seems to be growing similarly keen.In May a small number of probation officers began training as polygraph examiners.

The cuts have also "put public safety at risk" by reducing the number of probation and pretrial services officers available to supervise defendants awaiting trial and people released into the community after serving time in prison for serious crimes.

Grayling admitted that a conflict of interest row surrounding the sell-off has become more acute after the wife of the chief inspector of probation was promoted last week to run the company that is to take over the largest number of probation contracts.

He warned of risks to safety due to the reduced number of probation officers and reduction in prisoner monitoring.

The number of probation orders has soared from a few hundreds in 2006 to some 15,000 as of today.

If, in addition to bringing down the numbers of probation and parole revocations, police officers and judges could also address the core problems of drug arrests and street violence, the United States might even be said to have solved its notorious prison problem.

Janine McDowell was promoted 10 days ago to the job of managing director of Sodexo justice services, which has been named by Grayling as the preferred bidder to take over the largest number of regional probation contracts early next year.

The number of prior probation terms was inversely correlated with the median time to recidivism.

Our model adjusted for age, race and number of previous probation periods because these are established risk factors for recidivism in people living with and at-risk for HIV (Baillargeon et al., 2010; White et al., 2008).

Mr. Bishop, of West Babylon, said the county urgently needed to explore ways to reduce the number of inmates through probation programs or the use of high-technology equipment that would allow home incarceration.

Meanwhile, in the past 25 years, the number of people on probation and parole has increased from 1.6 million to 5 million.