Sentencing option in various courts. With probation, instead of sending an individual to prison, the court releases the person to the community and orders him or her to complete a period of supervision monitored by a U.S. probation officer and to abide by certain conditions.
          The woman pled with her attorney to try to obtain probation for her, as hers was a misdemeanor and first offense.
          
      
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