Sentence examples for probation system from inspiring English sources

Despite the problems of the probation system, studies have indicated that probation is effective in a majority of all cases.

Under the plan, inmates who have committed nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual offenses will be released back to the county probation system rather than to state parole officers.

An audit of Georgia's probation system a year ago estimated that in the five years to 2012, private firms collected as much as $132m from probationers.

On Thursday, Judge Keenan observed in a ruling that the federal probation system had "incredibly" approved Mr. Meskini's employment at the crime-ridden complex.

These sentences are administered by local juvenile probation departments, which are overburdened and underfinanced, in large part because the probation system has no strong advocate in Albany.

This requires a relatively simple but bold step: making the juvenile probation system an arm of the courts, rather than of the executive branch, as it is now.

Creating rational parole and probation systems, which can save enormous amounts of money, is just one step in that process.

"Shrinking the Prison Population" (editorial, May 11) rightly points out that parole and probation systems are sending too many drug-addicted and mentally ill offenders back to jail but doesn't mention that the primary mechanism triggering these sanctions is failed drug tests.

Probation systems may be able to reduce substance use and STD/HIV infection risk in offenders by strengthening the quality of social support networks.

JCS has similar arrangements to act as probation officers in more than 100 other courts around the state where many small towns and counties can't afford their own probation systems.

Women are the fastest growing populations in jails, in probation systems and among the homeless, and incarcerated women tend to have higher rates of substance abuse and mental illness — but there has been insufficient study of why.