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Example sentences for: probation

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Most felony defendants are repeat offenders; yet, most felony defendants are sentenced not to prison but to probation.
The judge in the Espy aide case ignored the sentencing guideline recommendation of probation to hand down a 27-month sentence for lying, and while doing so, referred darkly to a "Hollywood" lawyer and others who have suggested that lying under oath in a civil case isn't a big deal.
Run for the district attorney's office by veteran probation officer Mike Cleary, the citywide program boasts an 80 percent success rate, costs little to administer, and holds kids (including hundreds of juvenile felony offenders) accountable.
Here Metabolife interjects the following explanatory note: "Nine years ago, Michael Ellis received five years probation for the use of a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense committed in 1989 ."
More and more conservatives now favor abolishing parole, sharply curtailing probation, imprisoning every adult felon for his or her entire term, and warehousing juvenile offenders in adult jails.