In August 1841, a Boston citizen bailed out a "common drunkard" by permission of the Boston Police Court and helped the man with a drinking problem before returning to court with him three weeks later. Who was this citizen who became known as the "Father of Probation?"

That statement is false on a number of levels.  Jeremy Bentham was not a boot maker.  He was born to a wealthy family and was studying Latin by age three. He trained as a lawyer and became famous as a philosopher.  Oh, and he died in 1832, so he wasn't doing much of anything in 1841.   He is famous as one of the founders of Utilitarianism as an ethical theory.  He also did philosophical work in regard to criminal justice and prisons.  He proposed what he called the "Panopticon" as a design for prisons, in which all inmates can be observed from a central guard position.