Nassau limits direct monitoring of probationers
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Faced with steep budget cuts and declining staff, Nassau County's Department of Probation is limiting its direct monitoring of thousands of criminal offenders, most of them nonviolent.
Nearly 2,000 nonviolent probationers, who once had to check in monthly by telephone, now mail in form letters confirming they have not been rearrested, county officials said.
More than 1,100 probationers...
