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The second initiative by Seeing for Ourselves
Beginnings.
Probation started up in Boston in 1841, when John Augustus showed drunks kindness rather than to a prison cell. Rehabilitation was baked into probation from the start. The deal was set: lower recidivism in the future than incarceration, purchased at lower cost, offsetting any crimes committed during the term.
It held for a century. Until it didn't.

gagliardo DOP chief

Juvenile hearing 1955

Mary Finan and priest and lady

John Augustus for site

Elizabeth gets probation

NYS probation conference
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