CSCD
A. Provide the courts of this jurisdiction a sentencing alternative to incarceration that offers protection to the community and rehabilitation services to the offender;
B. Provide services to probationers that will assist them in complying with the terms and conditions of community supervision and facilitate their rehabilitative efforts;
C. Maximize the ability of supervision officers to monitor probationers living and working in the community through caseload size controls and objective evaluation of probationer risks to the community;
D. Reduce the economic cost of crime to the community;
E. Provide adequate levels of training and education to department employees to develop and/or maintain a professional level of skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary for the department to carry out its functions;
F. Allow localities to increase their involvement and responsibility in developing sentencing programs that provide effective sanctions for felony and misdemeanor offenders;
G. Provide increased opportunities for felony and misdemeanor offenders to make restitution to victims of crime through financial reimbursement or community service;
H. Provide increased use of community penalties designed specifically to meet local needs;
I. Promote efficiency and economy in the delivery of community-based correctional programs consistent with the objectives defined by law;
J. Provide a correctional system that recognizes the rights and needs of victims of offenders that are being supervised which includes appropriate notification and input from victims in this process.