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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Judges would be required to order probation instead of prison for offenders convicted of low-level felony crimes such as theft and drug abuse under a plan being announced ...

Convicts can be found to have violated the terms of their probation while still in prison, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled in revoking the scheduled release of a man who made threatening ...

Judge Belvin Perry made a decision Friday as to whether Casey Anthony will have to serve probation, saying she must serve a year of supervised probation. Click Like For Casey Anthony Updates:A hearing ...

As the rules with regard to probation are generally and thoroughly misunderstood, thereby creating no too cordial feeling between the undergraduates and the College Office, it seems worth while to ...

A judge has terminated the probation of Brooke Skylar Richardson, 14 months after she was sentenced on an abuse of corpse charge. Richardson was sentenced to three years community control last year ...

the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take the case, making Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration the high Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest during the ...

Luann de Lesseps narrowly dodged jail time after she violated her probation by drinking alcohol, and now RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal the Real Housewives of New York star thinks the strict ...

Defendants must be informed about the possibility of facing additional prison time if their plea agreement involves multiple offenses and they violate probation, the New Mexico Supreme Court said. The ...

UNCG announced Thursday that its athletic department has been placed on probation by the NCAA for rules violations that occurred between the 2007-08 and 2012-13 academic years. The violations, which ...