yet more probation

     You can move into an apartment in our fair city, and your neighbors may be serving a prison sentence under a form of house arrest. You may be watched and monitored by the people whose job it is to watch and monitor your neighbors. Your neighbors may be serving  a term of probation, after having been convicted of a crime. They may actually be serving a kind of prison sentence. Your address can become the address of a jail, in effect. No one seems to have any responsibility for informing tenants or householders that their neighbors may be on probation or serving sentences. A speedy and a public trial ought to mean just that. We don't owe anyone convicted of a crime a rehabilitated reputation. No one can legally be tried in secret in the United States, so how is this happening?  We would need to change the US Constitution to make it legal to try people in private.I suggest that you take an interest. It might be your neighbors, too.