“...and could face prison time if he runs away from the facility or violates any other terms of his probation, Alpert said.”
And why wouldn’t he? The state just reinforced his sense of entitlement. We’ll be seeing this guy again.
How? Generally a sentence is suspended and the person put on probation instead. Violate probation and your prison term is imposed. Correct me if I'm wrong but there was no prison sentence, suspended or otherwise, in this case. He was sentenced to rehab and probation. So if he violates probation then what can they do? Send him back to rehab? Extend his probation? How can they give him prison time when there was none to begin with?