Word: probationers
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Officials have said the students face discipline ranging from probation to expulsion.
There are several standard answers. The first says we must protect ourselves by removing dangerous individuals from circulation. This argument is sound, so long as we only look up people convicted of violent crimes whose individual cases indicate that they can not be rehabilitated or controlled through halfway houses, probation...
There are some simple and practical alternatives to the current emphasis imprisonment. Only there convicted of violent crimes should even be considered for imprisonment. Others can be fined, sentenced on probation or terms of public service (as John Zaccaro recently was), or sent to halfway houses or part-time center...
Long sentences, however, can make a difference where chronic offenders are involved. A Justice Department study of male convicts who entered state prisons in 1979 shows that 61% of them had been jailed before and that nearly half of these repeaters committed new crimes shortly after their release --crimes that...
SENTENCED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist director of a shelter in San Benito, Texas, that provides sanctuary to illegal Central American refugees; to 150 days in a halfway house, after being convicted in February of transporting Salvadorans who illegally entered the country and of conspiracy; in Brownsville, Texas. Elder...