American bootmaker and penal reformer in Boston who in 1841 began paying bail for minor offenders and personally supervising their rehabilitation instead of jail, becoming the first probation officer and coining the English term probation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own accountSources give the birth year as circa 1785. Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountBegan the practice in 1841 of paying bail for minor offenders in Boston and supervising them personally instead of jail; of the 1,946 people he helped over eighteen years only ten forfeited bail, establishing probation as a viable alternative to incarceration. 1 Connections
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Of the 1,946 people he helped, only ten proved unworthy (for which he forfeited bail)
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