1997 – Drunk driver who killed two must attend autopsy of a drunk driver’s victim, parade with a sign in front of a bar and put flowers on his victims’ graves on their birthdays
1996 – Wife-beater has to apologize on City Hall steps
1994 – Drunk driver who killed family must hang their picture in his jail cell
1994 – Piano teacher who molested students must sell piano and post sign on front door barring children from his house
1993 – First-time offenders forced to sit in court watching proceedings for two months
1992 – Teen who stole Nintendo game must be a Salvation Army yuletide bell-ringer
1991 – Poe and 40 probationers show up on TV cleaning and painting an elderly woman’s home
1988 – The man who stole pistols from the guy who played Lone Ranger must spend 600 hours cleaning up the HPD stables
1985 – Ten probationers mow and weed the historic Founders Cemetery on
Texas Independence Day
1984 – About 40 probationers sent to renovate the Battleship Texas
1982 – Michigan man ordered to leave Texas and return to his home state
This article appears in Nov 11-17, 1999.