Jail bookings may have been the result of a variety of situations: New arrest (followed by either release or prosecution), post-conviction sentencing, or violations of probation, pretrial bond or restraining order.
In court documents, prosecutors objected to a recommendation by a federal probation officer that Bonds receive probation when he is sentenced for obstruction of justice on Dec. 16.
The defendant, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was arrested last month and ordered held without bond on the probation-violation charges.
Jose Canseco, who retired last May with 462 career home runs, was sent to jail without bond yesterday after violating his probation for a nightclub brawl in 2001.
Hutchinson insists that the work funded by the bond is not an alternative to the probation service, which does not work with short-term prisoners after their release: "We are enhancing what is already there," he insists.
Last year, American courts ordered Scram devices on thousands of defendants released on bond and awaiting trial for alcohol-related offenses, those sentenced to probation, and under-age drinkers.
In addition, any conditions of pre-trial release are monitored only by a bail bonds person (if the defendant was released by a financially-secured bond, as opposed to release on personal recognizance), not by a probation or pretrial release (governmental) authority.
Bell was released on $45,000 bond, subject to electronic monitoring and under the supervision of a probation officer.
While awaiting sentencing, on March 29 , 2007 Scrushy's probation officer filed a report claiming that Scrushy had violated the conditions of his bond by leaving Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and traveling to Palm Beach where he boarded a yacht and sailed to Miami.
On December 15 , 2011 Bonds was sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003.
