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Probation violations

HOPE: A Swift and Certain Process for Probationers

Date Published
March 25, 2012

The HOPE program — Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement — is an experimental probation program that emphasizes the delivery of "swift and certain" punishment when a probationer violates conditions of probation.