Formerly known as “probation”, Community Supervision is the supervised release of a defendant within the community in lieu of incarceration in jail or prison (versus parole, which is supervision in the community upon early release from prison).

Society must incarcerate those serious and violent offenders who endanger the community. However, for many nonviolent offenders, Community Supervision is an alternative which provides rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Clients under Community Supervision are afforded the opportunity to live and work in the community, provide service to the community, support their families, receive rehabilitative services, and make restitution to the victims of their crimes.

Community Supervision ultimately protects society, reduces crime, and reduces overcrowding in the nation’s prison population. This, in turn, lightens the heavy economic burden placed on taxpayers in terms of the cost to build, maintain, and operate prisons.

Community supervision is the single most used criminal consequence in the U.S. today. It is a judicial function governed by the criminal courts. The Bowie County criminal justice system has 3 District Courts and 1 County Court at Law, where supervision staff are responsible for carrying out duties as directed by the Judge.

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