Word: probationer
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When security supervisor Donald P. Behenna was hired as a Harvard security guard in 1980, he almost didn't complete his six month probation period.
Behenna eventually passed his probation and became a permanent employee. But it was not the last time Behenna had problems on the job.
It was hard finding people who were willing to be interviewed. He got the names of potential contacts from probation and anti-gang officers but, says Hull, "these guys aren't exactly looking for publicity." He showed up more than once for a street-corner meeting, then waited in vain...
Fathers come to the program either by referral from a hospital, community center or probation office or, like Smalley, by word of mouth from a friend. Thomas J. Henry, 47, the program's director, says that many young fathers just need help cutting through the bureaucracy: filling out forms, standing...
The arrested men, who were identified from a television news videotape, are described by police as criminals linked to a vicious South Central gang known as the 8-Trey Gangster Crips. But supporters see the defendants as five young black men being scapegoated by a racist legal system that will...