Probation and Due Process of Law

Abstract

Not many years ago courts ruling on the law of sentencing and correctional treatment said or implied that a sentenced per son had few if any rights and was at the mercy of the courts and correctional administration. This image of the legal situation has changed and is changing. Persons who are being sentenced and even prisoners have many rights. Due process of law, both substantive and procedural, applies to them, derived from con stitutional and statutory provisions, as interpreted by the courts. Presentence and probation statutes play a significant role in this development.