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Returning From Prison to Washington, DC: “We Make Transition Possible”  


Author:  Leonard A. Sipes, Jr..


Source: Volume 16, Number 01, Fall 2006 , pp.5-7(3)




Journal of Community Justice (formerly Journal of Community Corrections)

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Abstract: 

Transitional Intervention for Parole Supervision (TIPS) unit—the name sounds like the essence of bureaucracy, but these TIPS teams of Community Supervision Officers (CSOs) are the officers who evaluate and assist the vast majority of offenders returning from prison to Washington, DC. These teams are part of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), the federal, executive branch agency that provides parole and probation supervision in the nation’s capital. Each year, approximately 2,300 men and women return to DC from Federal Bureau of Prison facilities. For most of them, the first CSOSA staff member they meet is a TIPS officer.

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Affiliations:  1: Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA).

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