How to Use probationer in a Sentence

probationer

noun
  • Advocates say about one third of these parolees and probationers are black.
    — Melissa Chan, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, a probationer might even be forced to testify against himself.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • The case also questions to what lengths a probationer must go to prove the marijuana is critical to their health.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Its income, in the form of the monthly fees, depended directly on how long each probationer remained on the hook.
    — al, 26 Sep. 2020
  • But during his time in the court system, Pavlioglou saw a way to improve the process for other probationers and people on bail.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Laye also faces charges of obstruction of an officer and possession of a firearm by a first offender probationer.
    — Raisa Habersham, ajc, 13 June 2018
  • Other rules include prohibiting more than one probationer or parolee in each facility.
    — Louis Casiano Jr, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
  • But when the state fund that pays for the tests runs out of money, parolees and probationers who don’t have the money to pay for them risk running afoul of their supervision requirements.
    — Christopher N. Osher, The Denver Post, 14 May 2017
  • There are collaborative courts for mental patients, drug users, high-risk probationers, juveniles and young adults.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • But the department no longer allows the FBI and other agencies to tag along on visits to probationers' homes.
    — Todd Lighty, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2017
  • So the Inquirer asked about a probationer who doesn’t have an open case, Nicholas Glenn, who went on a shooting rampage last year that left a woman dead.
    — Tricia L. Nadolny, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Further details were not immediately available, but field agents deal with parolees or probationers and do not normally work inside prisons.
    — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Rowland also said he as an exemplary record as a probationer and there would be no adverse effect to bringing his supervision to an early conclusion.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • About three-quarters of them are conducted via videoconference from the county jails, each probationer a forlorn figure in a blue prison uniform heard through a tinny speaker.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Sugarman answers for his probationer, whose attention is wholly distracted by the apartment.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • For instance, commissioners recommended the council adopt rules prohibiting more than one probationer or parolee from living in a single sober-living home at one time.
    — Luke Money, Daily Pilot, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Also, felony probationers and parolees with illicit drug abuse problems make up roughly half the population of active hard-drug abusers in the United States.
    — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • The number of rearrests are key indicator for an agency that is supposed to be preventing probationers from reoffending.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The probationer – Terry Easter – is suspected of firing shots, Abbott said.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 June 2020
  • She will also be required to participate in a victim impact panel and recidivist alcohol probationer program.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • One third of the restitution, when ordered, and half of other financial obligations were still uncollected for the average probationer, according to the task force report.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
  • And Massachusetts budgeted more than $5 million last fiscal year for the company to test probationers, according to public records.
    — Alice Hines, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The News also reported that the rearrest rate of probationers — a key agency indicator — has climbed during her tenure despite Holmes’ claims to the contrary.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Murder and other felony charges were filed today against a 20-year-old probationer who allegedly fired a gunshot toward his brother, missing him but inadvertently killing a next-door neighbor asleep in his bed.
    — Pomerado News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Two Aurora area men — a parolee and a probationer — face felony charges after police say someone in California mailed one of them a package containing thousands of grams of marijuana.
    — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The department is making arrangements for continued supervision of the county's probationers.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The sweep targeted high-risk adult probationers and resulted in 67 probation searches, according to statistics released by the department.
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The News also obtained internal agency statistics which showed rearrests of probationers had spiked 19% during Holmes tenure.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • El Cajon police found a cache of more than 100 firearms — handguns to assault rifles — along with body armor silencers and a tear gas grenade at the home of a probationer who is not supposed to have any guns, a police spokesman said Friday.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • The offbeat 2002 film Cherish, for example, featured a claustrophobic probationer who repeatedly tries to defeat her electronic bracelet.
    — Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017

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