Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

SAN ANTONIO – Shock probation is a sentence that a judge can give a defendant in which they serve a certain amount of prison time and are then released under specific probation conditions. This ...

With bad grades come consequences, and in college that may mean academic probation. Academic probation “on most campuses means that a student has not met a minimum threshold to be in good academic ...

[O]n a beautiful spring day in 2013, Defendant’s neighbor was driving along the dirt road to his house at a leisurely 10 m.p.h. with the music turned up and the windows rolled down — the perfect start ...

When a student at the University of Texas's Health Science Center--San Antonio recently learned that his school had been placed on probation, he contacted Elizabeth Wiley, a student at George ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Iowa State is seeking two years of probation from the NCAA for its recruiting phone call violations. But what exactly is probation? A good analogy to use is the probation an individual gets when being ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Raquel Scott sighed with relief when Philadelphia prosecutors withdrew charges against her stemming from a domestic dispute this past summer with her older son's father. She had ...

Questions are being raised about why a previously convicted man was free when he allegedly broke into a home, kidnapped a mother and her two children, forced them to rob a bank, and stabbed the woman.

It is always an exciting time when as a young probationary firefighter (Proby) you finally get off probation and you can remove the “dreaded” orange front-piece, patch or sticker on your helmet that ...

With Britain’s crisis-hit prisons overflowing, ministers are pushing through plans for tens of thousands more criminals to be electronically tagged and punished in the community. But with the ...