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Poverty, lack of transportation cause probation revocation

A reader forwards this ruling from Texas Second Court of Appeals affirming a two-year sentence for a woman for violating her probation terms. What were the violations? She:failed to timely notify her probation officer of an address changefailed to complete anger-control classesfailed to attend the Personal Money Power Program, andfailed to pay required feesThe circumstances around these violations, though, were poverty and a lack of transportation. According to the opinion:she did not report to her probation officer one month and did not attend the Personal Money Power Program because she did not have transportation. She also said that she could not afford the anger-control classes. Soliz testified that she is responsible for seven children, six of her own children and one grandchild, and that she and the children live with her mother...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).