The private-probation business has established a presence in such states as Utah, Missouri, Montana, and Colorado, although its home remains in the Cotton Belt.
Schlumberger is now required to pay $155m in criminal fines, forfeit $77.5m in earnings, and undergo three years of corporate probation, the business world's answer to a yellow card.
In 2008, the disciplinary council for the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary accused Bell of misconduct for contracting his brother-in-law's private probation service business to supervise adults and juveniles convicted in Bell's court.
Though the city eventually separated the departments again, the collaboration -- involving schools, hospitals, the probation department and businesses -- gave police the ability to make quality-of-life services and crime prevention a core part of their community policing approach.
B1 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 AndeRejectedected Probation The Justice Department was willing to consider deferring or dropping prosecution of Arthur Andersen if it admitted it had illegally destroyed documents and agreed to a form of probation.
Prosecutors said Mr. Ungar agreed to a sentence of five years' probation and a lifetime ban on doing business with the authority.
Some tenants on month-to-month leases, Mr. Deutsch said, are on probation because "we're not sure these businesses can make it".
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Under the terms of a three-year probation period, neither Panda nor Pan can run businesses that store or dispose of hazardous waste, said Hansen Pang, a chief investigator at the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
H. Clayton Peterson, a former director at Mariner Energy and a well-known Denver business executive, was sentenced to two years probation with three months home confinement.
The doctor, Allan W. Clark, 52, despite losing his Ohio medical license and being on probation in Pennsylvania for eight years, built a buprenorphine business so bustling that five doctors now work under him.
