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What is probation? How did it develop? What purpose does it serve?
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Probation is a prison sentence that is suspended. English courts in the fourteenth century entrusted prisoners to willing citizens based on good behavior. In Boston in the late 1700s, prisoners were taken home by John Augustus as an alternative to incarceration. Later, Massachusetts authorized the city of Boston to hire a salaried probation officer. Missouri, Vermont, and Rhode Island followed with similar enactments. By the end of the nineteenth century, probation was widely accepted.
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