As Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Craig predicted at one of the court hearings concerning Sentinel Offender Services, efforts are underway to change the law governing private probation companies.
This week, members of the Georgia House’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee advanced a bill that gives private, for-profit probation companies powers that Craig ruled they didn’t have under the current law.
In September, Craig ruled that two common practices – the extension of probation sentences past the original terms and electronic monitoring – are practices the state law specifically reserves for probation officers employed by the state.
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