Evolving from common-law procedures and starting with the volunteer work of a Boston cobbler, John Augustus in 1841, this method of penology first became a government function in 1869 when Massachusetts passed a law requiring the Board of Charities to send an agent to arrange family placement for young offenders.
Evolving from common-law procedures and starting with the volunteer work of a Boston cobbler, John Augustus in 1841, this method of penology first became a government function in 1869 when Massachusetts passed a law requiring the Board of Charities to send an agent to arrange family placement for young offenders. Massachuesetts strengthened it in 1878 with a law authorizing court employment of an officer to monitor it. FTP, give the name for a sentence suspended on the condition that the offender behaves as directed.
Evolving from common-law procedures and starting with the volunteer work of a Boston cobbler, John Augustus in 1841, this method of penology first became a government function in 1869 when Massachusetts passed a law requiring the Board of Charities to send an agent to arrange family placement for young offenders.
Probation