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- All Subjects: Pima County (Ariz.)
- Creators: Arizona. Superior Court (Pima County). Adult Probation Department
- Creators: Regan, John J.
In about 60% of the cases sentenced in Pima County, the offender will be placed on supervised probation for an average of three years. Protection of the community is always the primary consideration when determining a supervision program. To ensure long-term protection requires motivating the offender to change those factors that contributed to criminal behavior. Based on empirical research conducted by social scientists, certain dynamic factors are common to offenders and are targets for change.
If one species had to be chosen to preserve and restore, perhaps it should be cottonwood. Cottonwood-willow forests, where they exist and are healthy, indicated the presence of a viable riparian area, which is in turn the key to conserving great proportions of our native species. A reflection of the dire status of our riparian systems is that the Sonoran cottonwood-willow and Sonoran mesquite-cottonwood forests.
The Drug Court Team strive to provide the best probation services to participants, the court, and the community. This report also contains the results of a two-year Deferred Judgment outcome study.