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“Anyone can make a mistake,” she said. “Maybe it was an impulsive move, like driving under the influence.” But once the mistake is made, she added, what counts with her “is what they make of the situation.”
With probationers, those convicted offenders whose jail sentences are suspended on the condition that they undergo a period of supervision by a probation officer, “Most are grateful of the opportunity. Most do well and succeed.”
Her biggest problems, she said, come from young offenders between 18 and 25 years old. Many are immature and irresponsible, she explained, “and they do not respond to authority figures, be they parents or probation officers.”
The increasing use of drugs and alcohol is the primary reason most young offenders do not successfully complete their probation or parole. She has seen a sharp upswing in the failure rate of urine screens from those offenders. “Peer pressure, to smoke marijuana or take cocaine at a weekend party, is more important to them than a Monday morning drug screen.”
But when they fail, Mrs. Moore is there to deliver her message: “When you are on probation or parole, obeying the law is your primary responsibility.”
And, when she finds someone, “especially those young, cocky and irresponsible,” who fails to live up to the court-imposed conditions, she doesn’t hesitate to recommend that they spend some time behind bars. “When you fail on probation or parole, we have no other choice but
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