Latest Probation Stories

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A subdued Courtney Love, clutching a copy of Bob Dylan's autobiography, was sentenced on Friday to 180 days in jail for violating her probation, but will serve her time in a live-in drug treatment center. The troubled rocker has been living at a lock-down substance abuse facility since admitting in August she had used drugs, a violation of her probation. A Los Angeles judge said she would be spared jail time because of the headway she made in...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Hundreds of paroled sex offenders in Tennessee will be tracked by satellite under a program said to be the largest of its kind in the United States, officials said on Friday.Next week, Tennessee's State Probation and Parole Board will fit up to 650 sex offenders with ankle bracelets and special rechargeable belts to monitor their whereabouts.The parolees are told to stay away from certain zones around schools, day care centers and former victims, the board's...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge ordered a tearful Courtney Love into an in-patient substance abuse facility on Friday after the troubled rock singer admitted to violating the terms of her probation by using drugs. Love broke down in quiet sobs as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin warned that he was prepared to send her to jail because he felt she needed "to hit rock bottom" before she was ready to overcome her drug addiction. But Rubin said the...

LOS ANGELES -- A California judge on Wednesday ordered rock singer Courtney Love to appear in court next week to respond to accusations that she took drugs while on probation.The 41-year-old singer, who was sentenced to a drug rehabilitation program last year after a slew of assault and drug-related incidents, was told to attend court on Aug. 19 or face arrest."I'm certainly not happy with what's going on," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin said at a brief hearing, which...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California judge granted actor Tom Sizemore's request to stay in a psychiatric hospital for round-the-clock treatment of depression and drug abuse on Friday after he admitted to breaching probation on a drug conviction. But the judge refused to rule out the possibility that Sizemore, 43, who played soldiers in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," might be sent to prison in the future, even if he completes his drug treatment without further lapses. "I'm not...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for troubled actor Tom Sizemore asked a judge on Friday to let him remain in a psychiatric hospital for treatment of depression and drug abuse if he admits to breaching his probation on a drug conviction. If he is found to have violated the terms of his probation, Sizemore, 43, who played combat-hardened soldiers in war films "Saving Private Ryan" and "Blackhawk Down," could face up to three years in state prison, prosecutors said. The movie star is accused of...