Word: probationer
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In a country where convicted murderers are sentenced to an average of 20 years, Bakker's punishment seemed excessive and arbitrary to many people. "Before some judges, Bakker might have gotten off with little more than probation," said a federal judge, who declined to be identified.
Johnson points to a case last year as an example of the widespread problems with fake ID's at Harvard. In February, a first-year student was charged with mass production of driver's licenses. He received three years probation and was ordered to pay $1000 in court costs after...
But in Georgia, experts say 35% of boot-camp graduates are back in prison within three years, roughly the same rate as for those paroled from the general prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation...
The Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) program has successfully accommodated the more than 400 sophomores who returned this fall on academic probation, after failing one or both parts of the exam, students and administrators said yesterday.
At the least, Frank's judgment was appallingly naive. After an initial encounter in which he paid Steve Gobie $80 for sex, the Congressman says he tried to lift the younger man out of drugs and prostitution by hiring him to run errands. He wrote letters to Gobie's probation...