probation
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They added that prisoners at risk of becoming homeless can be offered temporary accommodation by the prison and probation service.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Based on the totality of the evidence in the case, including the body worn camera video, we determined that pursuing the probation violation was the most appropriate sanction,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Napo, the probation service union, said the releases have put enormous strain on its members, who are charged with monitoring the offenders in the community.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Monday, a judge approved Xu’s petition to have his felony charge dismissed following the completion of his probation earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
After my six-month probation, I got a promotion, a raise, and an offer to permanently join the Flight Research Division’s Maneuver Loads Branch, whose research included keeping aircraft safe when they were in flight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Documents may include formal accusations, which detail allegations of gross negligence and other violations; letters of reprimand; and disciplinary orders spelling out stipulated agreements, suspensions, revocations and probations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
Their protests earned them 12-month probations from the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
Some want uniform caps on probation terms and the Senate bill calls for such limits: three years for misdemeanors and five years for probations.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
By mid-July, having violated their probations, both of Hannah’s parents were in jail.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2013
She was in earnest, evidently prepared to work, but her imagination flew over preliminaries and probations, took no account of the steps in the process, especially the first tiresome ones, the hard test of honesty.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
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