NCJ Number
94607
Date Published
Unknown
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This monograph describes Georgia's Intensive Probation Supervision (IPS) program inaugurated in July 1983 to provide close community supervision to selected offenders, primarily nonviolent felony cases, who normally would have entered prison.
Abstract
The IPS team, comprised of experienced probation officer and a surveillance officer, supervise a maximum caseload of 25 offenders who present no unacceptable risk to the community. A primary goal of IPS is to monitor closely the offender's activities, as well as to offer rehabilitative services. Consequently, the program has very strict standards of supervision, ranging from near-daily face-to-face contact with probationers to mandatory curfews. Revenues from probation fees imposed by sentencing judges on probated offenders support all costs of the IPS program, and the Probation Division plans to expand it to all judicial districts with significant numbers of potentially divertible offenders. The paper outlines criteria for diversion to the IPS program and options available to judges for sentencing offenders to IPS. Standards of supervision are presented for three phases: minimum of 3 months, 3 to 12 months, and after 12 months. Areas addressed by the standards include face-to-face contact, employment verification, curfew, community service, local criminal record check, law enforcement notification, and community monitors. Responsibilities of the IPS team officers are detailed.