Words similar to probation

Example sentences for: probation

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Jay Kim, who pleaded guilty to knowingly accepting $230,000 in illegal foreign and corporate campaign contributions, was sentenced yesterday to a year of probation, a $5,000 fine and two months of home confinement, to be implemented by an electronic monitoring device.
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 ."
But how could they be properly supervised by overworked, underpaid probation officers with scores of cases to manage?
Probation sanctions, he concludes, "are not rigorously enforced."
On any given day in America, there are three convicted adult criminals out on probation or parole for every one in prison--and many of these are indistinguishable (in terms of their violent and repeat criminal histories) from those who remain in prison.